(AP) - The unofficial start of summer over the Memorial Day weekend offers a troubling glimpse of what lies ahead for travelers during the peak vacation season. U.S. airlines canceled more than 2,800 flights from Thursday through Monday, or about 2% of their schedules, according to tracking service FlightAware. Gas prices, adjusted for inflation, hit a 10-year high this weekend, according to federal officials. Various forecasts of high numbers of travelers over the weekend proved to be accurate. That meant many flights were packed, too, because airline schedules still have not returned to pre-pandemic levels, according to figures from travel-research firm Cirium.

Source: CNN May 31, 2022 22:03 UTC