more of the boeing 757 s out of service for inspection leading to dozens of canceled flights today. that is only adding to the frustration of fler s frustration. they are backed in a bitter pay dispute with pilots creating a travel nightmare. more than 1,000 flights have been canceled, another telephone,000 delayed. now we aviation expert who is head of an aviation consulting firm. who knew if you dropped your soda your seat pops out of the track. guest: it gives a new mean when they say, please, take your seat, can you do that now. the reality is, this is a maintenance issue that went bad. they are fixing it. it happened at wrong time. it is anessty cocktail for american airlines do deal with. i would like to know who at american airlines made the comment about coca-cola causing this, that person needs to be on the top of the hit parade to
accident-related deaths according to one aviation consulting firm. still, most are choosing not to fly and they drive instead. aaa estimates 91% of holiday travelers are driving, up 2% over last year, while the number taking to the skies isรง down nearly 10%. and can you blame them? with higher airfares and security being such a pain, no wonder americans are staying grounded. with us now to tell us what to expect this weekend and in 2012 is kate hanide, founder of the coalition for an airline passengers bill of rights. welcome, kate. so this year, what do you make in terms of the trends of air travel being up and road travel being down. what does that tell us? when the tsa introduced the new, invasive pat-downs, about 15% of all regular air travelers decided they were not going to fly any longer or fly as infrequently as possible. between that and flight delays and all of the ore problems with air travel, you ve got a pretty large faction of people who have
stopping the shipment. reporter: the catch phrase being abundance of caution, megyn. they are using an abundance of caution. megyn: exactly right. indeed that is exactly the way they put it there. and they are calling it as an additional safety measure they ve embargoed all the shipments orange kwraeuting from yemen. they are coordinating with the authorities referring further questions to the fbi and we expect more updates shortly on that. rick thank you shr-fp. very much. we ll check in with michael boyd, an aviation expert. he s president of an aviation consulting firm. i want to start with the situation on the cargo planes. obviously we worry about the good men and women who are the crew on those planes and we also worry about the cargo shipments that wind up on commercial passenger jets. there is a fair number of shipments that do wind up on delta, american, united air, all those flights that take you and i from a to b here in the united states and that s just a fact of life,
back trace who put the sandwiches together and who may else have had access in the area to the send witches. if time stamps or video cameras exist, that could prove incredibly helpful. so, too, would employee whose may have seen or her something or know something. shepard: thank you, gregg jarrett from the newsroom. and now an expert, chairman of the aviation consulting firm. mike, how much do we know about security for people who provide all sorts of thing including food for airlines? guest: a lot. there is none. basically this could have been steel in lasagna. we have been warned. the back doors of the airports are wide open. shepard: so we go through the screaming and they take arm our water bottles but they let anything in for catering? guest: same with fuelers and the people working on the ramp, fixing the concrete. this is for show.
i m richard lui in for fredricka whitfield. a nation in shock. an airliner carrying president kaczynski. 97 people were aboard and there were no survivors. the delegation was on its way to a ceremony marking the seventh anniversary of a world war ii massacre. that plane was trying to land in heavy fog in an area of smolensk and apparently hit some trees. john cox is a veteran airline pilot who heads an aviation consulting firm that specializes in emergency response planning and crisis management. he joins us on the phone from st. petersburg, florida. from what you know and heard in terms of the information, what are some of the hypothesis they