Delta Air Lines reported canceling 325 flights in the days leading up to Christmas, which was the busiest travel season of the pandemic.
A perfect storm of bad weather and a lack of pilots forced Delta to cancel the flights over a three-day period starting December 23. Thanksgiving similarly saw over 600 flight cancellations at the airline, revealing a trend of poor performance during the holidays. Delta Air Lines was caught in the crosshairs of a winter storm that fell on the pandemic's busiest travel week, causing 325 flight cancellations in the days leading up to Christmas and 130 on the holiday itself.
Wind gusts of up to 40 miles per hour and snowfall affected Delta's hub in Minneapolis starting on the Wednesday before Christmas, as thereported, that continued into the following day. The initial storm prompted Delta to cancel 250 flights and rebook passengers but that was just the beginning. What began as a weather issue quickly turned into a staffing issue as the airline found itself with not enough pilots.
Those years of screwing passengers sure built up zero good will. I look forward to high speed rail