Thousands of flights were canceled nationwide from Friday to Sunday night, leaving some airports an absolute mess.
O'Hare and Midway managed to stay mostly on track, but a lot of people flying here from other places ended up getting stuck.
Experts say this tumultuous weekend for holiday travel was a perfect storm of air travel complications: including staffing shortages, packed planes and the ripple effects of bad weather. "A lot of people were asked to leave their jobs or furloughed for the last couple years so bringing those people back has been a challenge I think for some of the airlines," said Kendra Thornton, of Royal-Travel.com."So I think that's number one. And also just I'm seeing a lot of mechanical delays too, so it could just not be the crews that are in the planes flying with you, but also just ground crew and mechanics.
"I try to get a morning flight or early afternoon flight, because the later flights always get canceled," Wackenhuth said.
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