Service will be reduced by approximately 100 flights per day by Delta Air Lines effective as of Friday, July 1, 2022 — primarily in markets which are frequently served by Delta Air Lines in the United States and Latin America region — in order to minimize disruptions and “bounce back faster when challenges occur”…
Reduced Service For Summer 2022 By Delta Air Lines
…and the decreased service will be in effect through Sunday, August 7, 2022.
“The demand for travel has been on the rise, driven by people eager to reconnect with the world around them. Rebuilding Delta’s full-scale operation to serve the increasing number of customers who want to fly with us has been a huge feat — and not without challenges”, according to this article from Delta News Hub, which is an official Internet web site of Delta Air Lines. The reduction in service “will build additional resilience in our system and improve operational reliability for our customers and employees; we’ll continue to proactively adjust select flights in the coming weeks.”
In addition to weather, directives from air traffic control, the staffing of vendors, and other factors, increased case rates of the 2019 Novel Coronavirus have contributed to unscheduled absences by employees in some work groups which have exceeded what was initially planned — all of which have resulted in delayed flights and canceled flights in an operation that is not consistently up to the standards that have been set for the industry by Delta Air Lines in recent years.
“If upcoming bookings for later this summer happen to change, our teams will provide customers with the next-best itinerary that gets them where they need to go with the shortest delay possible”, according to the aforementioned article. “As summer travel officially gets underway, Delta expects to welcome approximately 2.5 million customers this Memorial Day weekend — a 25% increase from 2021 passenger levels.”
These latest adjustments build on other actions Delta Air Lines has taken recently — including:
- Continued engagement with the Federal Aviation Administration of the United States on improving processes for air traffic management.
- Adding several hundred new pilots and flight attendants to the operation every month as they are hired and trained to support the growth of the airline.
- Launching initiatives to improve boarding time and departure performance.
Final Boarding Call
Reduced service usually means higher prices — especially when demand has increased significantly — so expect airfares on flights which are operated by Delta Air Lines to become even more expensive this summer.
Additionally, nothing publicly was mentioned about Delta Air Lines supposedly “thinning the schedule” over the Memorial Day holiday weekend and through the balance of June of 2022; so expect delays and cancellations of flights during that period of time as well…
…and I am not completely sure that viable alternatives available on other airlines — in terms of frequency of schedule and significantly lower airfares as only two examples — abound, as other airlines have their own issues with which they are dealing.
The summer of 2022 is poised to be a frustrating one overall for travelers and frequent fliers — and not just because of air travel…
Photograph ©2018 by Brian Cohen.
