Storm warning for air travel. For several weeks now, riots have been on the rise at airports. Because if the travelers are back after two years of health crisis, the staff is missing. Added to this labor shortage are the repeated strike movements, most of the time to demand salary increases, in a context of runaway inflation. So many elements that destabilize the sector in the middle of the summer season.
CNN figures compiled by FlightAware bear witness to this: flight delays and cancellations are becoming more frequent at some airports. The “palm” goes to Toronto Pearson International Airport, where more than half (52.5%) of flights were delayed between May 26 and July 19. The situation is such that Air Canada announced the reduction of the number of its flights this summer and implemented a flexible ticket change policy “due to longer than usual delays”.
Roissy-Charles de Gaulle in the top 3
After Toronto, Frankfurt airport has the highest proportion of delayed flights (45.5% since May 26). For its part, Roissy-Charles de Gaulle airport ranks third (43.2%), ahead of Amsterdam Schipol airport (41.5%), London Gatwick (41.1%) and London Heathrow (40, 5%), which recently asked airlines to stop selling tickets. For this summer. Finally, Munich (40.4%), Athens (37.9%), Sydney Kingsford Smith (34.2%) and Orlando (33.4%) complete the top 10.
In terms of cancellations, on the other hand, Europeans are doing better as only one airport on the Old Continent is among the ten airports with the highest proportion of flights canceled between May 26 and July 19. This is the Schipol airport in Amsterdam (tenth), which was forced to cancel 3.9% of its flights during the period.
At the top of this unflattering ranking is Shenzhen Bao’an International Airport (7.9% of canceled flights), ahead of US airports Newark Liberty (7.4%) and LaGuardia (7.4). %). Toronto Pearson Airport (6.5%) is fourth, followed by Indonesia’s Soekarno-Hatta (6.2%), Sydney (5.9%), Guangzhou Baiyun (5.2%), Ronald Reagan-Washington (5%) and Chongqing Jiangbei (4.6%).
Source: BFM TV
