Friday, the Herald has reported, which adds up to about 58% of flights arriving at their destination within 15 minutes of the scheduled landing.īuttigieg said he is pushing the airlines to stress-test their summer schedules to ensure they can operate all their planned flights with the employees they have, and to add customer-service workers. by the thousands Thursday, Boston Logan International Airport had dropped 119 flights and 387 had been delayed by 5 p.m. “That is happening to a lot of people, and that is exactly why we are paying close attention here to what can be done and how to make sure that the airlines are delivering,” Buttigieg told The Associated Press in an interview Saturday. The day after Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg met with airline leaders to quiz them about widespread flight disruptions, his own flight was canceled and he wound up driving from Washington to New York.
