Flight cancellations and delays continued Monday at Logan International Airport in Boston after travelers were stuck waiting in terminals for hours during the weekend. As of 11 p.m. Monday, FlightAware reported 55 flight cancellations and 206 delays.The vast majority of flight cancellations to or from Logan Airport involved JetBlue, which has the biggest presence at the airport. Spirit canceled nearly 75 percent of their Boston flights on Monday. A spokesperson for JetBlue said the number of flight delays and cancellations is not specific to JetBlue, and that severe weather in the Southeast and multiple air traffic control delay programs have created significant impacts on the industry over the past several days.”You’ve got planes that are stuck on the ground in Florida and crews that are stuck on the ground in Florida, and those crews timed out,” Tom Kinton, of Kinton Aviation Consulting, explained. “Their ability to fly legally was timed out, so they had no replacement crews there, and it just cascaded.”JetBlue said Monday that they’ve “made good progress in ramping up operations and repositioning crewmembers and aircraft that had been forced out of position due to the weather and significant air traffic delay programs.””We apologize to our customers for the inconvenience and we are working to keep them updated and get them on their way as quickly as possible,” JetBlue said in a statement. “The airlines are not in a position to recover these days like they used to because of staffing,” Kinton said. “It’s much more than weather. The main culprit – there’s a lot of things, but the main culprit – is a pilot shortage, as well as flight attendant shortage and mechanic shortage. The airline industry is experiencing the same thing that a lot of other industries are experiencing,” Kinton said. According to the Transport Workers Union of America, Ed Baklor, head of JetBlue’s Customer Care and Programs, issued a statement on March 28 that indicated the operational problems at JetBlue are being caused by flight attendants refusing to accept assignments. The union said, in a news release, that Baklor’s statement could not be further from the truth.“It’s time for JetBlue to stop playing the blame game with their flight attendants,” Gary Peterson, TWU International Vice President and Air Division Director, said in the union’s statement. “Our flight attendants showed up and kept this airline flying during the pandemic. Now it’s time for management to show up for them.” “Flight attendants are not the cause of these problems. They are the reason customers come back to JetBlue,” TWU International President John Samuelsen said in the union’s statement. “The TWU is ready to meet on these issues immediately. It is time for JetBlue to take responsibility for poor management decisions and to come to the table to negotiate real solutions that will address the real problems.”

Flight cancellations and delays continued Monday at Logan International Airport in Boston after travelers were stuck waiting in terminals for hours during the weekend.

As of 11 p.m. Monday, FlightAware reported 55 flight cancellations and 206 delays.

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The vast majority of flight cancellations to or from Logan Airport involved JetBlue, which has the biggest presence at the airport. Spirit canceled nearly 75 percent of their Boston flights on Monday.

A spokesperson for JetBlue said the number of flight delays and cancellations is not specific to JetBlue, and that severe weather in the Southeast and multiple air traffic control delay programs have created significant impacts on the industry over the past several days.

“You’ve got planes that are stuck on the ground in Florida and crews that are stuck on the ground in Florida, and those crews timed out,” Tom Kinton, of Kinton Aviation Consulting, explained. “Their ability to fly legally was timed out, so they had no replacement crews there, and it just cascaded.”

JetBlue said Monday that they’ve “made good progress in ramping up operations and repositioning crewmembers and aircraft that had been forced out of position due to the weather and significant air traffic delay programs.”

“We apologize to our customers for the inconvenience and we are working to keep them updated and get them on their way as quickly as possible,” JetBlue said in a statement.

“The airlines are not in a position to recover these days like they used to because of staffing,” Kinton said.

“It’s much more than weather. The main culprit – there’s a lot of things, but the main culprit – is a pilot shortage, as well as flight attendant shortage and mechanic shortage. The airline industry is experiencing the same thing that a lot of other industries are experiencing,” Kinton said.

According to the Transport Workers Union of America, Ed Baklor, head of JetBlue’s Customer Care and Programs, issued a statement on March 28 that indicated the operational problems at JetBlue are being caused by flight attendants refusing to accept assignments. The union said, in a news release, that Baklor’s statement could not be further from the truth.

“It’s time for JetBlue to stop playing the blame game with their flight attendants,” Gary Peterson, TWU International Vice President and Air Division Director, said in the union’s statement. “Our flight attendants showed up and kept this airline flying during the pandemic. Now it’s time for management to show up for them.”

“Flight attendants are not the cause of these problems. They are the reason customers come back to JetBlue,” TWU International President John Samuelsen said in the union’s statement. “The TWU is ready to meet on these issues immediately. It is time for JetBlue to take responsibility for poor management decisions and to come to the table to negotiate real solutions that will address the real problems.”