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headaches for vacationers. airlines have cancelled over 2,000 flights since friday. cnn s pete muntean is live at reagan national airport. what have you heard from people traveling today? this is a huge test for the airlines, not only the first major travel rush where we did no have the transportation mask mandate in place but also airlines are cancelling flights because they are facing major worker shortages. look at the latest data from flight aware. 331 flights cancelled today and since friday, 736. the tsa has screened 2.1 million people per day. these numbers are about 90% of where we were back in 2019 before the pandemic, and the tsa says as the summer drags on we could see numbers actually higher than pre-pandemic levels. i asked transportation secretary pete buttigieg about it.
dollar a gallon on average the last year, that is about $736 each time one of these fills up. $200 more per truck on average from a year ago. any cost that goes up will hurt your profitability. reporter: in north carolina, prices have seen the biggest annual increase in seven years. up five cents a gallon for regular fuel in the last month, in line with national increases. gas prices really have been a roller coaster ride. these are places where gas prices don t tend to drop as they do in other places around the country because they are year-round destinations. reporter: and with the price of crude oil, which makes fuel jumping 30% since september due to increased demand but less product on the market, the cost to fill up could continue to rise. it is not something that you can put down. gas is a must. you cannot get from here to there without the gas.
gets expensive. how you doing? diesel fuel is one of our single biggest expenses to run the trucks. reporter: shawn brown is mayor of claremont, north carolina, and works for his family s 50-year-old trucking company. each truck has 200 gallon total capacity in the fuel tanks. drivers run on average around 2,000 miles a week, some more, some less. you do the math on that. reporter: we did and with diesel up more than a dollar a gallon on average in the last year, that s about $736 each time one of these fills up. $200 more per truck on average from a year ago. any cost that goes up will hurt your profitability. reporter: in north carolina, prices have seen the biggest annual increase in seven years. up 5 cents a gallon for regular fuel in just the last month. in line with national increases. gas prices really have been a roller coaster ride. these are places where gas
tanks. drivers run on average 2,000 miles a week, some more, some less. do you the math on that. reporter: we did and with diesel up more than a dollar a gallon on average the last year that s about $736 each time one of these fills up. $200 more per truck on average from a year ago. any cost that goes up will hurt your profitability. reporter: in north carolina prices have seen the biggest annual increase in seven years, up 5 cents a gallon for regular fuel in just the last month, in line with national increases. gas prices really have been a roller coaster ride. these are places where gas prices don t tend to drop as they do in other places around the country because they are year-round destinations. reporter: and with the price of crude oil which makes fuel jumping 30% since december due to increased demand, but less product on the market, the cost to fill up could continue to rise. it s like the necessity of food, it s not something that