Always a good idea to have extra.
I overheard one of my students talking about delays in getting back from vacation, since their flight went through Puerto Rico. I didn’t ask for more details because I don’t know them well yet (new semester, new students) and didn’t want to risk a political discussion on the first day of class.
In the airline trade press I saw that normalcy was restored on Jan 4, and extra flights have been being put on to try to clear the backlog.
Tonight on the Miami local news I saw a segment that the Miami airport is in possession of a mountain of delayed luggage separated from its people that the airlines are slowly sending back home around the country as capacity permits.
Like aftershocks from an earthquake, the real shaking is over, but the follow-on effects are still reverberating.
I had a vacation to Colombia planned for a few weeks from now. Discussed it with my travel partner. Yesterday was the last day to cancel with a full refund. We cancelled. We’d probably be ok, but the risk just isn’t worth it for us right now. We’ll find somewhere else to go.
I’m having flashbacks to my cancelled trip to Italy in the early 2020.
One of my friends was on a cruise in the Caribbean, she was meant to fly home to the UK last week but they were delayed too. Fortunately their luggage was returned to the cruise ship and they’ve been able to stay aboard until (hopefully) a flight home on Monday/Tuesday.
That sounds to me like “normalcy hasn’t been restored yet”.
Poor choice of words on my part. Thanks for the ping.
What I meant was the normal pre-planned schedules were reinstated effective the 4th without an extended phase-in. So a lightswitch cut-over.
Plus … extra added flights, larger planes, etc., above and beyond normal to try to clear the backlog. Which extras will continue until the backlog is drained.