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FBN’s Jeff Flock on the many delays and cancellations airlines have today, on the busiest travel day of the year.
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Travel days of the year.
And they share airlines are looking to profit by cutting back on the number of flights scheduled during the holiday -- Reasons it over to Jeff Flock who's at Chicago's O'Hare airport one of the -- the busiest.
-- -- -- -- That's why it's a bigger mess than normal.
-- it's because Tracy they have cut back on the number of -- -- -- -- have a problem like today.
Where you have.
Heavy fog in the morning you know it's sunny out there now.
-- -- heavy fog this morning had cancellations.
Latest numbers I have a 162 flights to O'Hare canceled 31 at midway.
500 delays flights at O'Hare -- take a look at the board.
This is still rippling out here if you're coming through Chicago it's not a happy time Montreal your canceled.
-- -- work -- canceled.
Anything you see in yellow upon that board that's either canceled or delayed.
And that's have been what has happened.
Because of this.
And because the fact the airlines have fewer seats out there now they've actually done well the stocks are doing better profits are doing better there actually making money.
But it leads to not as many deals for you and also when you get a situation like -- we have cancellation.
You don't have a lot of extra seats out there we can absorb these travelers who otherwise had to cancel.
-- so not necessarily happy time out here we're getting into the afternoon -- you can see all the kiosks are filled but the American terminal O'Hare.
On what -- tells us the busiest Thanksgiving travel airport in the US tops Hartsfield tops the JFK and all the rest.
It's busy.
It looks sick and so basically share well there's win consumers.
In the news big time.
Def flat we announced the way it goes sometimes you win sometimes you lose my -- -- -- to go anywhere to -- yet come to keep her.
I'm -- come at a tough time -- over the George Washington bridge and -- -- black happy holidays.
