
U.S. Enters a Record Summer Travel Season as Airport Strain Tests the System
American air travel is heading into another record-setting summer, and the clearest sign of it comes from the country’s largest carrier. American Airlines projects it will fly 75 million passengers across roughly 750,000 flights between May 21 and September 8, surpassing the summer record it set in 2019 and arriving in the airline’s centennial year. The demand is real, but so is the strain on the system meant to handle it, and federal regulators have





















