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Flight delays and cancellations

When Flights Cancel due to Weather
When you see that weather is going to affect your travels, what can you expect? Many of the airlines invoke similar policies for dealing with cancellations or delays due to inclement weather. Similar, not always universal, and you may or may not be protected on another flight.
What Are Your Options When an Airline Strikes?
Whenever a strike is looming at an airline, passenger anxiety naturally increases. The uncertainty not only is among passengers, but extends to airline employees as well. In effect, if you call an airline even hours before a possible strike you are likely to be told that the company line is business as usual.
Track Delayed Flights
If you are heading to the airport to pick up a passenger, or leave for a flight yourself, make sure that everything is running on time by checking to see if there are any delays.
Anatomy of Air Travel Delays
The Federal Aviation Administration supports research into flight delays. This is a report that takes a number of different flight delay scenarios and then examines each at length.
Airline Flight Delays - U.S. Airlines
Check and see which of the airlines are most and least likely to be on time.
Airport Performance
Which airport will you spend the least time in? Choose the U.S. airport you'd like information on, and see what percentage of the flights leave on time.
Delays - Detailed Statistics
The U.S. Bureau of Transportation Statistics maintains a vast number of flight delay statistics pertaining to a few of the largest domestic airports.
Travel Complaints
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