US flight delays and cancellations appear in live trackers showing 5,483 total delays and 202 total cancellations, as reported by Live Airline Flight Cancellations Info & Statistics, with 369 delays and 23 cancellations involving the US.
The same live feed points users to a MiseryMap for visualization, and it notes errors loading some airline, origin, and destination statistics when the site cannot retrieve them.
The data feed and visualization operate alongside a separate federal resource, designed to help passengers understand airline promises during controllable disruptions.
What The Federal Dashboard Says About Airline Promises And Passenger Rights
The US Department of Transportation publishes an Airline Customer Service Dashboard that summarizes commitments airlines make for controllable cancellations and delays, using green check marks for commitments and red x marks when airlines have not pledged a service.
The dashboard covers ten large US airlines and their regional partners, which the Department says account for approximately 96 percent of domestic scheduled passenger air traffic, and it lets consumers compare amenities airlines promise during controllable disruptions.
The Department defines controllable delays to include maintenance and crew problems, cabin cleaning, baggage loading, and fueling, and it says airlines must adhere to the commitments they list on the dashboard.
The DOT also reminds passengers that commitments on the dashboard do not affect the right to a refund, and it requires airlines to provide prompt refunds to ticketed passengers when flights are canceled or significantly changed, even for nonrefundable tickets when passengers decline alternatives.
For operational information, the Department requires airlines to update passengers about status changes within 30 minutes of becoming aware when a flight is scheduled to depart within seven days, and those updates must appear on airline websites, telephone reservation systems, and on flight status displays at US airports under the airline's control.
For itineraries more than a week away, the Department asks airlines to notify passengers as soon as practical without prescribing a specific timeframe, and it explains creeping delays as situations where initial delays grow longer because of unexpected developments.
