DALLAS - Another busy holiday weekend and another nightmare for travelers stranded at airports nationwide.Since Thursday, some 19,000 flights have either been canceled or delayed.
That includes 40 at DFW Monday and 17 at Love Field.Airlines are blaming bad weather and a shortage of pilots.Captain Dennis Tajer is a spokesman for the Allied Pilots Association, which represents American Airlines pilots."It's been horrible," he said. "It's everything that we warned management would happen this summer because they kept doing what they did last summer."Tajer says the airline is overscheduling and underdelivering."That's selling tickets in the spring for the summer where you can't support the flying," he said.Over the weekend, U.S.
Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg told the Associated Press he wants airlines to stress test their flight schedules, making sure they can operate their current schedules with existing staff.Tajer doesn't see the problem getting any better unless management takes immediate action."I'm going out to fly tomorrow, and my day is well past 12 hours.