going to be cancelled so we can know what to do. it s saying my flight was last seen near new york. it s not really saying. it s not really telling me what s going on. all right. so here is the lawsuitest tally, more than 1,300 flights in the u.s. have been delayed so far today. and it s only 9:00 a.m. eastern time and cancellations just other 400. aaa pretickets 3.5 million people will fly this weekend and additional 42 million people are expected to drive somewhere this holiday weekend. silver lining and as boris said last hour it s a very small silver lining for hours is that gas prices dropped about 8 cents other the last week. that s still $1.70 more than it was a year ago. live to the busiest airport in the country, nadia ramiro is in atlanta. we have been seeing enormous lines behind you. what s the mood of these travelers? what are you seeing? reporter: yeah. so right behind me this group of travelers has just been cleared to move forward to get through anothe
the demonstration on thursday was every pilot was on their off time. so, there is no on rational challenges as a result of our demonstration. as far as this weekend, it s a broader issue that s responsible airline scheduling. we urged delta management not to overschedule airline counting on us flying records amount of overtime. this weekend i can t preduict hw it s going to go. there s challenges out there. if delta pilots are there to get our passengers safely to our dust nation as we can. we understand your perspective that the pilots have been stretched thin. obviously there s weather and other contributing factors, but overall, what would you say is the biggest issue? what is creating all of the strain that we ve been seeing in the airline industry? quite frankly it s irresponsible scheduling, overscheduling. when coming out of the pandemic, we re scheduling more flights than we have people to fly them,