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A pilot explains why air travel has become so stressful

24 January 2023

2:42 PM

24 January 2023

2:42 PM

Add your tropical dream vacation/work trip/family wedding to the list of lingering Covid consequences.

If you’re like me, every time you head to the airport these days, you brace for your flight to be delayed or cancelled. It’s not just in our heads. If it seems that air travel has gotten less reliable since the the pandemic hit, that’s because it has.

Reuters reported in August 2022 that “flight cancellations and delays by US airlines in the first seven months of the year have surpassed the comparable 2019 period.”

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