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American Air Scraps 950 July Flights With Staff Stretched
- Summer travel demand ramped up faster than airline expected
- Weekend weather also contributed to hundreds of cancellations
Photographer: Patrick T. Fallon/Bloomberg
American Airlines Group Inc. dropped about 1% of its scheduled daily flights for July after a faster-than-expected surge in summer travel led to crew shortages.
The airline will cancel 950 flights during the first 13 days of July, after it scrapped about 775 flights over the weekend and into Monday on what it cited as poor weather conditions at its Miami and Chicago hubs that exacerbated a shortfall in pilots. In some cases, delays caused by storms exhausted its group of reserve pilots.