As summer passenger volume hits pre-pandemic levels, an ongoing shortage of air traffic control personnel is unlikely to be resolved anytime soon. Here’s what it means in the short term:
The Transportation Department Office of Inspector General report comes out just as the busy summer travel season gets underway. Screening officers at U.S. airport security checkpoints are seeing passenger volumes roughly on par with the pre-pandemic levels of 2019, according toIt will be a busy summer for U.S. airports, with a record 307 million seats now scheduled for the third quarter 2023, according to aviation data from Cirium.
“But, of course, the interesting thing is that we still don’t have the same number of flights that we operated pre-pandemic. So we are moving the same amount of people on fewer flights,” says Bangs. “How? The airlines are using bigger planes.” U.S. carriers have 2% more seats in their domestic schedules for summer compared with the same period of 2019, despite operating roughly 11% fewer flights, according to Cirium data. Bigger planes mean travelers will see roughly 20 more seats on many domestic flights.
The strategy of employing larger planes on existing routes is known in the industry as “upgauging,” which allows airlines to sell more seats on each flight and make do with fewer planes, which also happen to be in short supply. But there are practical limits to how much airlines can upgauge. “Not every gate is equal,” Rodney Cox, United Airlines’ vice president of airport operations at Newark Liberty International Airport,
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