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American Airlines continues to cancel flights, now cancels 338 more flights
American Airlines, is the largest flight company in the United States, this is how this Monday it has canceled 338 more flights, which represents 6% of the 5,639 flights scheduled for Monday. With this new number of canceled flights, there are now 1,951 canceled flights from Friday to Sunday.
This has been a decision that has clearly been affecting thousands of passengers, who have not been able to travel due to the cancellation of flights. For four days, the company has been canceling flights due to many problems ranging from labor to weather conditions, but which undoubtedly affect the company.
More than 1,000 flights suspended
During the past weekend, Aerolina Airlines has suspended more than 1,000 flights for the whole world, many of them attributed to bad weather conditions, where very strong winds were reflected that drastically prevented the arrival of other flights.
Last Friday it was known that 343 flights of the 5,926 that were scheduled for that day were canceled, for Saturday, 548 of 4,697 scheduled were canceled, while for Sunday 1,060 of 5,180 corresponding flights were canceled.
To all these cancellations, we must add those of this Monday, which were 338 flights, for a total of 2,289 cancellations in just four days. It is expected that for this day Tuesday there will be other cancellations.
The American Airlines company had 21,712 flights scheduled between Friday and Monday alone, but the cancellations of all these flights accounted for at least 10.5% of the total flights. But to all this we must add the problems added by the shortage of workforce.
The job shortage at American Airlines
According to the company, this step was taken in order to offer a better service to its customers.
But not only has he had to face the problems of time, but the shortage of personnel begins to take its toll on them.
Due to the existence of so many problems in the weather conditions, it caused most of the employees to finish outside their normal flight hours, this has been made known by the company's staff in a statement.
The statement sent to the employees by the director of operations of the airline, David Seymour is the following: "In order to ensure that we can serve our customers and provide certainty in the programming of our crews, the operation of the last days of this month, progressively canceling some of our flights ".
Upset in passengers
Without a doubt, the cancellation of so many flights has caused annoyance in the affected passengers, who have clearly manifested themselves on social networks to show their rejection.
Some public claims of the passengers have been the following: "I could be delayed or diverted, but by being with their employees who oppose the stupid and anti-American mandates," referring to the mandate of vaccines that supposedly It is among the complaints of the airline staff.
Other users assure that the American Airlines company is completely incompetent, when thousands of passengers are unemployed due to a labor shortage that many associate with the failure to place the vaccine.
"Thank you for canceling my flight. You canceled flights in a preventive way knowing that you would not have the necessary personnel to cover them, and you did not want to tell anyone. I will never choose this company again."
Many of these comments could be seen on social networks against the international and domestic flight company. A company that has not only been affected by the rejection of customers, but also by the economic losses caused by all these canceled flights.
However, American Airlines has ensured that as of this Tuesday around 1,800 flight attendants and others will return to the company by December 1, while by the end of the month they expect to hire at least 600 flight attendants.
All this with the aim of combating the shortage of staff and being able to respond to the call of all clients who want to use their services.
