It's Travel Chaos!

Travelling is going to be difficult this 4th of July weekend... or impossible. There have been a lot of cancelled flights and delays. As Joe said, "Hello Greyhound."

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hey guys, it's Matt from Outer Magazine. I'm here at
Mammoth Mountain for just over a week out from fourth
of July. We still have one hundred and twenty six
inch space here at the summit. There's still sixty plus
trails open, nine lifts running daily. The snow is awesome.
It's honestly standing like march out here. Come on out
to Mammoth. There's a time to do here.

Speaker 2 (00:17):
Sure, how are you gonna get there? Well, you can drive,
which is I'm actually doing a big long drive because
I like driving, my kids like driving. But you can't
fly anywhere. Yeah, it's gonna be ugly next week. It's
already ugly. So well, just in the last couple of days.

Speaker 3 (00:37):
I like how you glass the gloss over the fact
that climate change is giving us no snow after it
gave us less snow and normal snow. That's climate change too, right.

Speaker 2 (00:45):
So already this week twenty two hundred canceled flights in
the last two days. Really more than sixteen thousand delayed flights.
Canceled flights, obviously, if you've ever been on one, is
a big problem. It's annoying to have your flight delayed
and you hang around at the airport for a very
long time. When your flight is flat out canceled. It

(01:08):
sucks because you've got several hundred people they got to
figure out how to go somewhere, and the other flights
for the day are already usually full sore at you
ain't going nowhere. I saw all kinds of reports on
the news last night of people who were being told
it would be next week before they could get a
flight out of whatever East coast they were.

Speaker 3 (01:28):
Yes, next week, it's it's shooting, start walking.

Speaker 2 (01:32):
So some of it is weather, some of the fires
all over the country, or some of it is things
that you know, are you know, black Swan events, But
some of it is not, as cnnry is reporting hundreds
of thousands of US airline customers already stranded this week,
hundreds of thousands as severe weather grounded plane led to

(01:55):
canceled flights, all that sort of stuff. But that's only
one factor. Staffing shortages, as has been the problem all
these other airport apocalypses that we had over Thanksgiving and
Christmas in various times where people were stranded all over
the nation. Remember that whole thing staffing shortages at both
US Airlines and the FAA air traffic control operations took

(02:15):
a bad situation and made it worse, and that's how
we ended up with thousands of cancel flights already, tens
of thousands of delays, and we're just getting going on
one of the biggest traveling segments of the entire year.
It's chaos down here.

Speaker 1 (02:31):
One woman behind me in line told me she's been
told to be prepared to be stuck here until Saturday.

Speaker 3 (02:37):
Everybody is so thrust out.

Speaker 2 (02:40):
People are yelling, people are mad. There's never a situation
where it works for your schedule to be told on
a Tuesday that you can fly on Saturday.

Speaker 3 (02:52):
Hello Greyhound, I'm interesting rile smell interesting smells. Oh yeah,
you could do that

Speaker 2 (02:57):
Well, interesting smells.