By Kelly Yamanouchi
From The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Flight cancellations continue to persist for U.S. airlines since severe disruptions caused by the January COVID-19 surge and even as carriers staff up ahead of what’s expected to be a busy summer travel season, according to the latest federal data on air travel.
Airlines canceled 4.5 percent of their domestic flights in February, according to the U.S. Bureau of Transportation Statistics, after canceling 6.3 percent of their flights in January, during the height of the omicron variant.
That’s significantly more cancellations than in February 2020 before the pandemic, when airlines canceled just 1 percent of their flights. Aside from cancellations, airlines overall have maintained on-time arrival rates of about 75 percent or higher in the first two months of the year.
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