U.S. Airline Memorial Day Meltdown May Signal Challenging Summer

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To many industry-watchers, the Memorial Day travel period was a stress-test to gauge whether U.S. airlines were prepared to handle an expected surge in leisure travel demand this summer. By nearly all accounts, they failed. U.S. carriers canceled nearly 7,000 flights between Thursday, May 26 and...

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