Last Saturday the internal chaos experienced by the world’s largest airline, American Airlines, jumped to the media. The operational disorder is tremendous, to the point that this Monday he had to announce the cancellation of hundreds of flights for the next three weeks, in the hope of, in the meantime, finding a template with which to normalize services.
The problem was the sudden increase in demand in the United States accompanied by the departure of many workers. Shannon Gibson, a spokeswoman for the company, told television that “the first weeks of June have brought an unprecedented surge in demand, strongly impacting our operation and causing delays, canceled flights and disruptions in the schedules of crew members and the plans of our clients. That, combined with the labor shortage, has led us to have to reorganize to improve the response to demand ”.
The cancellations will affect its entire network, although analysts believe the Dallas-Fort Worth airport hub will be the hardest hit.
This week alone, demand in the United States grew by another million and a half seats. John Grant, an aviation expert consulted by the media, says that the American aviation industry now offers 72.4 million seats a week.
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