101 flights. that airline says it is trying to change its aircraft equipment as well as routes. american airlines less than 1% of its schedule has been canceled. t.s.a. is reporting it is screening more than a million people a day during the christmas holiday. that number is up significantly from a year ago and lower than before the pandemic. across the country long lines as major hubs as many passengers resigned to the cancellations and delays. i am supposed to be at work tomorrow. our connecting flight was no longer going to be on time and we had to rebook. the only way we could get out of here. benjamin: a cdc decision to shorten the time of quaranty could help airlines. not everyone thinks it s a good idea. flight attendants union says the interests of corporate america rather than being on the advice of medical
benjamin: david lee miller is live at laguardia in new york city. what s the situation like there? more cancellations across the entire country, benjamin. we can expect cancellations caused by staffing shortages resulting from the spread of the virus. in addition to bad weather out west. as you so rightly pointed out it s the sixth straight day that we are witnessing these travel disruptions. yesterday alone more than 1200 flights were canceled and 7600 were delayed. more problems. alaska canceling 77 flights because of weather. it is proactively reducing departures from seattle to allow more time to de-ice aircraft. united canceled and delta 3%,
aircraft and united 7% of its flight. jetblue 8%, 83 flights. delta 3%. trying to change aircraft and american airlines has canceled less than 1% of its flights. across the country long lines at many airports especially the hubs. frustrated passengers are running out of patience. i have been at the airport since 9:00 a.m. i want to get home. come here and despite the omicron variant cdc says it is not considering a vaccine mandate for domestic travel. according to the tsa yesterday it screened close to 2 million travelers. that numbers we re seeing so far this holiday season show that there is an improvement
struggling with. as bad as this situation is, it shows it can get much, much worst. thank you so much. 32 minutes after the hour. other headlines we re watching at this hour. the faa investigating a different kind of plane incident. it s a joke an air traffic controller told to a pilot coming into a atlanta. we might want to figure out a place for us to park while we sort it out. delta 3 identify go around. i ve got no one behind you. expect to exit right, second high speed. we ll hide you out somewhere down by papa. he had already changed the course of the plane. fairly grim milestone, it s now more than 100 days since that ma litigation jetliner have vanished. malaysian authorities are