Some air travelers deal with cancellations

The July Fourth holiday weekend is off to a booming start with airport crowds crushing the numbers seen in 2019, before the pandemic.

At Los Angeles International Airport, passengers were greeted with short lines during the midday hours. But that was no consolation for the passengers whose flights were cancelled.

With many flights sold out over the July Fourth weekend, airlines will struggle to find seats for passengers whose flights are canceled.

By mid-afternoon Friday on the East Coast, airlines had canceled more than 350 U.S. flights and another 3,700 were delayed.

From June 22 through Wednesday at least 600 flights were canceled, and between 4,000 and 7,000 were delayed per day, according to tracking service FlightAware.