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international where one airline is reeling flights in. kelly o grady in los angeles where folks are saying the hell with it all and hitting the road instead. welcome. i m neil cavuto. this is your very crowded world today. doesn t casey stegall know it in dallas. casey? yeah, neil. it s been so busy all day long. we got here at 7:00 a.m. local time. steady streams of people. nothing insane. no lines out the door or anything like that. the folks at aaa says that this fourth of july is expected to be the second and busiest in terms of travel since 2000. so more than 20 years, if you can believe that. almost 48 million americans venturing out over the next couple days. for air travel, it s 3.5 million. that s the project, which is a little higher than last year according to aaa. only time will tell whether those holiday passengers will further bog down the airport and the airlines. as of this hour, i just did a quick check. more than 3,900 delays and 374 cancellations ar ....
out of control ahead of the july 4th weekend. rich, great to be with you. wonderful to be with you, i m in for john roberts, rich edson. millions are expected to travel for the holiday. aaa predicts 3.5 million will fly, but staffing shortage, pricey fares, and some pilots threatening to strike causing turbulence for the friendly skies. gillian: thousands are being canceled, delayed, experts are fearing an influx of new holiday travelers starting today is set to make matters even worse. listen. all of it is coming to a head, we are seeing the cancellations. we just need more people to work in the industry both as air traffic controllers, pilots, you know, flight attendants, all of that. all in short supply and they can only staff so many planes. gillian: casey stegall is tracking the travel nightmare from dallas-fort worth international. hi, good to see you. a little turned around, i should be wearing my winter coat, usually when we are standing at the airport ....
International where one airline is reeling flights in. kelly o grady in los angeles where folks are saying the hell with it all and hitting the road instead. welcome. i m neil cavuto. this is your very crowded world today. doesn t casey stegall know it in dallas. casey? yeah, neil. it s been so busy all day long. we got here at 7:00 a.m. local time. steady streams of people. nothing insane. no lines out the door or anything like that. the folks at aaa says that this fourth of july is expected to be the second and busiest in terms of travel since 2000. so more than 20 years, if you can believe that. almost 48 million americans venturing out over the next couple days. for air travel, it s 3.5 million. that s the project, which is a little higher than last year according to aaa. only time will tell whether those holiday passengers will further bog down the airport and ....
A little turned around, i should be wearing my winter coat, usually when we are standing at the airport doing the holiday travel stories it s around thanksgiving, not really the 4th of july but aaa as you were saying predicts this 4th of july is expected to be the second busiest for travel since the year 2000, if you can believe that, with some 48 million americans expected to get out and about over the next several days. for air, it is three and a half million. the projection, a little higher versus last year. only time will tell whether those holiday passengers will further bog down the airports and airlines, already i can tell you that more than 900 flight delays and more than 240 cancellations are being reported in the u.s. from flight aware, so cue the long lines, waits and frustration. i do get stressed sometimes, ....
We cannot take a full load of our own passages and then have more passengers coming in from p&0. we simply don t have the capacity. so we took the decision that we would be better off to focus on our passengers and not disappoint p&0 passengers arriving at the port because of course the worst thing is to have people turn up and then for us to say we are really sorry but we do not have the space for you. so they are hoping that as of monday they can start taking p&0 passengers again. as well as the shortage of ferries, the weather has been terrible and that has disrupted sailings. and also there is a huge influx of holiday passengers. it s tripled compared to this time last year. so on the m20, there are currently 23 mile tailbacks of lorries. 0peration brock has kicked in. it has the capacity to deal with 2,000 lorries but at the moment they are dealing with 4,500, so many lorries spent the night there. there are no bathrooms, there is no food for them, ....