reporter: with the labor day travel rush around the corner, united airlines is expecting big numbers, 2.6 million passengers on united airlines alone. two big tips if you re traveling. one, ditch the checked bag and carry on, that leaves you more flexibility. and two, ditch the connections from your itinerary and fly nonstop. more connections only opens you up to more opportunities for delays and cancellations. pete muntean, cnn, denver international airport. yeah. but if your flight is cancelled and the only flight available is to connect, then you don t have a choice how to do that. it s been heck of a year with traveling. yeah, i don t ever check in my bags if i don t have to, right? any way, this morning parts of the gulf coast are bracing for some potentially dangerous flooding in the coming days. cnn meteorologist allison chinchar is standing by at the cnn weather center. allison, where are we going to see the most rain? unfortunately a lot of places
we are just days away from the labor day travel rush, and it appears the summer of travel pain is not over yet. monday, marked one of the worst days for flight cancellation in months. yeah. those cancellations are often caused by staffing shortages, and they ve made flying just a nightmare this summer. cnn s pete muntean sat down with the ceo of united airlines for an exclusive look at how they re attacking this issue. reporter: another week of air travel pain across the counsel a tri is turning up airlines to fix it. this past monday alone, more than 1,400 flights were cancelled nationwide, the fourth highest of the summer. both southwest and american airlines delayed more than 40% of all their flights. our flight was cancelled.
book today at aspendental.com, walk in, or call 1-800-aspendental. we re just a few days away from the labor day travel rush. it appears the summer travel pain, though, not over yet. monday marked one of the worst days for flight cancellations in months. if you ve been through them, as many of us have, it has not been fun. the cancellations caused by staffing shortages, they made flying just a nightmare for some, this summer. cnn s pete muntean sat down with the ceo of united airlines for an exclusive look at how it is trying to attack the issue. reporter: another week of air travel pain across the country is turning up the pressure on airlines to perform, with the labor day rush fast approaching. this past monday alone, more than 1400 flights were canceled nationwide, the fourth highest
potential oxygen shortage in hard-hit southern hospitals where intensive care units are packed with covid patients. as cnn s athena jones reports for us, this comes amid worries the virus spreading in cools and during the labor day travel rush. reporter: this labor day weekend, the message from federal health officials is clear. first and foremost, if you are unvaccinated we would recommend not traveling. reporter: and given the surge in covid-19 infections, the u.s. now averaging more than 160,000 new cases a day. the cdc says even those who are vaccinated should take precautions. u.s. air travel hitting a 15-week low tuesday according to the tsa. travel experts citing covid concerns. with more than 101,000 people hospitalized nationwide, the biden administration now closely monitoring oxygen supplies. hospitalizations in georgia up tenfold since the beginning of july. idaho s governor warning his state has only a handful of