Airline analysts say delays and cancellations are likely to persist, and could even get worse.
Airlines cancelled nearly 1,200 U.S. flights on Sunday and Monday, leaving passengers stranded and luggage piled up at airports across the the country. Thousands more trips were scrapped across the globe as the summer travel season kicks off.
"We may not have seen the worst of this," Kit Darby, founder of Kit Darby Aviation Consulting, told CBS MoneyWatch. Darby expects ongoing shortages of pilots and flight crew, as well as aircraft, to continue to cause backups, particularly as we approach the end of the month and pilots reach the maximum number of hours they are legally permitted to fly."Toward the end of the month, and as we transition into the next month, is when it's the worst.
"Right now, when you have normal things like airplane maintenance or weather, delays are much more severely felt. There are no reserved extra pilots, planes, flight attendants — and the chain is only good as the weakest link," Darby said.
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