US airports back this Friday New Year’s Eve returned to normal and recorded fewer than a hundred cancellations, mostly from Southwest airlines. A week of chaos from storm Elliot.
According to the number of FlightAware portals, A total of 98 flights scheduled to or from the United States today have been cancelled.Compared to the more than 2,500 canceled on Thursday.
These, 41, owned by low-cost carrier Southwest, The protagonist of a series of New Year’s Eve cancellations investigated by the US government.
Attributing the weather chaos to the impact of the winter storm at Christmas, the company canceled more than 2,300 flights yesterday. But this Friday, he reassured that it was working “normally”. despite cancellations
U.S. Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg reacted sharply to Southwest’s “unacceptable behavior” on Thursday and sent a letter to the general manager of this company based in Dallas, Texas. for the “maximum of research faculties” Hold Southwest accountable if they fail to keep their word made to pay passengers.
While other airlines are experiencing storm cancellations and recovered “relatively fast”The letter adds that Southwest has not done so.
The company attributes its downfall to: Hundreds of pilots and flight attendants were out of work Winter storm Elliot, which hit the country last week with freezing temperatures, heavy snowfall and hurricane-force winds.
In total, it left more than 50 dead due to the cold and accidents. 1.7 million homes are without electricity and thousands of passengers are on the ground Those who want to be reunited with their families on Christmas Eve and Christmas.
Buffalo, in Eire County, in northwest New York state, was the hardest hit by the storm. president of the united states Joe Bidendeclared a state of emergency there and local authorities estimate the death toll at 37.