(Morning News) The United States started the independent day holiday on Saturday (July 2), but the airline continued to face the problem of personnel shortage. Nearly 600 flights were forced to cancel.Essence
Agence France -Presse reported that according to the flight tracking website Flightaware data, as of 12:00 on Saturday, Eastern Time (Singapore, July 3rd at midnight), 595 US flights were canceled, exceeding 2500 flights,Delay.The website said that the numbers on Friday were also bad, and a total of 3060 flights in the world were canceled.
The relaxation of epidemic prevention measures and the long -standing travel needs are driving the strongest summer travel tide since the epidemic of the United States.However, the cancellation of frequent large -scale flights is causing passengers to fall into chaos.
Although the US government's crown disease rescue plan allows some aviation industry employees to keep their jobs, thousands of workers have urged the airline to retire in advance and leave the industry, causing a serious shortage of manpower.Analyst estimates that compared with the epidemic, the current aviation industry has returned to 90%of the passenger flow before 2020, but employees have decreased by about 15%.
Analysts predict that before the fall of tourism demand to slow, this situation will not have a meaningful improvement.
Airlines have recently started actively recruiting, but experts believe that due to limited training capabilities, the situation of pilot shortage will continue for many years.
