U.S. airlines canceled high numbers of flights for a second straight day on Friday as they tried to recover from storms while accommodating growing crowds of summer vacationers. Meanwhile, Britain’s Gatwick Airport has slashed its number of daily flights over the summer because of staff shortages as the global aviation industry struggles to meet a resurgent demand for travel. By early afternoon in the eastern U.S., airlines has scrubbed more than 1,100 flights after canceling more than 1,700 on Thursday, according to tracking service FlightAware—making it one of the worst days yet for travel as the peak summer vacation season heats up. FILE PHOTO: A Transportation Security Administration agent serves a traveler at a checkpoint in a sparsely populated Terminal B at LaGuardia Airport,...
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