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People around the world are anxious to travel again as pandemic restrictions are being lifted. But those planning to jump on a plane for a vacation have been frustrated by chaos in the airline industry. In both North America and Europe, thousands of flights have been cancelled and hundreds of thousands of passengers have had their trips disrupted.
Here are answers to some key questions about the current problems with air travel.
Why are so many flights being cancelled or delayed?
The principal cause of the disruptions has been a shortage of qualified personnel at airports to handle the recent surge in passenger traffic.
Airlines have been taking advantage of recent demand for air travel by returning aircraft and flight schedules to close to 80 per cent of pre-pandemic levels, with the resulting volume of flights putting significant stress on the capability of the supporting infrastructure — airports, air traffic control and labour conditions.
Are the problems only happening in certain airports or is this a worldwide issue?
The congestion phenomenon in the summer 2022 travel season is rapidly spreading across a number of European and North American airports. The reason behind this concentration of congestion is quite simple: these are the air travel markets that have experienced the highest volumes of air travellers in recent months.
The rapid elimination of COVID-19 protocols in these markets since March have generated a significant increase in the demand for air travel, with volumes of passengers that haven’t been seen in more than two years. This increase in volume has been highly evidenced in major airline hub airports such as Amsterdam, London, New York and Toronto, where tens of thousands of passengers are processed every day.
Read more: https://theconversation.com/cancelled-flights-disrupted-vacations-frayed-tempers-faqs-about-the-chaos-in-the-airline-industry-185750