brittle like last year, kate. but it is showing that they cannot let their guard down because 2.72 million people flew on friday, and that is the highest number that we have seen since the 2020 downturn in air travel and bigger than the biggest day in 2020, and so this is celebrated by the passengers and transportation secretary pete buttigieg showed that the cancellation rate going into this weekend has been about one percent, which is a lot lower when you are thinking back to last memorial day when the airlines were canceleding about 2,700 flights in total, and kicking off the cascading meltdowns between memorial day and labor day with 55,000 canceled flights. and so now, while everybody is coming home all at once, the cancellations have been low, and
million. that is because gas prices are also cheaper than they were this time, last year. about 3.5 tickets. going by plane, i should, say in that about 2 million or, so a car or a other mode of transportation, while i was, here i saw a number of travelers about why they shows this type of year to go on a flight, because many of them are feeling cooped up after the pandemic. and they just wanted a destination getaway. take a look at what one traveler told me. i m excited, i ve been ready to get a town for a little bit. roads were kind like the, beach and everything. so i liked having to get down there. i just graduates going florida. they re saying it s a huge traffic weekend, so it looks great. somebody is doing a good job. we earlier, the earlier you get, you re less trust you have. traveling is the best way to go out. transportation officials are also taking somewhat of a victory lap because of the cancellation rate underway has been under 1%. if you take a little bit of the
perfect. but again we have the lowest cancellation rate in our history. we are running the best operation we have in our history. so i think it will be, you know, summers are always busy, there are always thunderstorms and those challenges. so it won t be perfect, but i think it will be a good summer overall. how worried are you about the faa s shortage in air traffic controllers? it s my number one concern for the long term and for the near term and long term. i mean, secretary of transportation, you know, publicly said a couple weeks ago that the air traffic control system is 3,000 controllers short. we have fewer controllers today than 30 years ago. i am here in denver. the last two days, you know, because of sick calls, they had a staffing shortage, reduced the capacity of the airport by to 30%. the arrival rate 30% reduced because of air traffic controller delays. the challenge is it s a two to three-year period of training from the time you start and you
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different statement. what she d said bears very little relationship to either fact or the things that i said. let mejust take either fact or the things that i said. let me just take them either fact or the things that i said. let mejust take them in either fact or the things that i said. let me just take them in turn. i am very pleased that she welcomed the deal and the acceptance by rmt. i am pleased that he didn t say that she recognises the approach i ve taken since i became transport secretary is the right one that has helped lead to the situation is wearing today. i didn t expect it to say, or pay any credit for for me to that. on avanti, she said the figures speakfor that. on avanti, she said the figures speak for themselves, weekday services have risen to 264 trains a day. the cancellation rate she talks about was last year, the most recent cancellation rate is down to 4.2% which is the lowest level in 12 months, which is quite a