America’s busiest airport told to cut 300 flights per day from summer schedule |
America’s busiest airport told to cut 300 flights per day from summer schedule
About 300 flights per day must be cut from the schedule at Chicago O’Hare International Airport on the busiest days this summer in an effort to reduce flight delays, federal officials announced Thursday.
“If you book a ticket, we want you and your family to have the certainty that you’ll fly without endless delays and cancellations,” Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said in a statement.
O’Hare has the most number of flights of any U.S. airport, and it already had one of the worst records for flight delays nationwide last year.
More than 3,080 flights were planned on peak days this summer, which represented a 14.9% increase from the summer before, according to the U.S. Department of Transportation and Federal Aviation Administration. That increase comes as air traffic controllers deal with taxiway closures for construction........