flights at u.s. airports appear to be returning to normal after another holiday weekend full of cancellations. over this july 4th weekend, it is better overall compared to other holidays this year when flight cancellations were upward of 3% and 4%. joining us now to discuss is cnn business correspondent rahel solomon and business reporter cybill marcellus with us. like i said, 2% is that s great. but so many people flew that there were all of these nightmare stories and i wonder if airlines should have been better prepared. if you were one of the 2% on the flights, you feel like the airlines dropped the ball and screwed it up. if you re the airline, you might say, well, we did the best we
it was an absolute madhouse. we were so i was rushing to laguardia to try to get home in time for my birthday and i was told get on the 12:00 flight or you won t get on a flight all weekend. i heard nightmare stories over the past three, four days. and mika and i were talking about this yesterday. it seemed like the demand is so outpacing the supply for seats, we re in some sort of strange almost post-covid crush back to the airlines. tell us what s going on and particularly with jetblue. by the way, what you re seeing is happening everywhere. i had the same problem on friday, had a flight that was canceled, had to go do a lot of maneuvering to get on a plane. jetblue says they re going to cut capacity over the summer, not increasing. what? what? saying they re doing that in part to prevent more people being disappointed where they have to cancel the flight at the last second, which is what
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