Travelers face lingering delays at Atlanta airport

As we come back in the newsroom, the time now is 10.20 on this Sunday morning, and so I want to bring in our Kaitlyn Pratt, who has made her way over to Atlanta-Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport. She's right outside the main TSA checkpoint, and Kaitlyn, we know that there are some delays and cancellations today. Things are a lot better than yesterday, but for the people who are impacted, I'm sure it's still going to be frustrating. For sure. You said it. Frustrating is the name of the game. A tricky travel weekend for people. That is for sure. Atlanta, one of those airports, slowly but steadily recovering from that ground stop on Friday. Hard to believe that just four hours time, right, is making such a big impact as far as those delays and cancellations are concerned, Tyler. But let's dig into the details here. What we've learned just getting an update midday, mid morning rather, from FlightAware. They're reporting more than 4,200 canceled Flights more than 3700 delays involving US travel in all following those heavy cancellations Friday and Saturday as a result, especially here in Atlanta. You also have Chicago, Dallas in New York. Those are the hardest hit right now. Remaining concentrated here. Now operations. You were just talking about the weather. No problems as far as the weather is concerned here in Atlanta. Clear, sunny skies. So baggage helplines though. Rebound Book flights still are seeing some bottlenecks, and we ran into a couple experiencing that, especially this morning. Their flight canceled at the last minute. We're trying to rebook, but they had to get to Florida, they say, for a funeral and just couldn't wait. Take a listen. The original flight was for today, November 15th, and it was for 7. It was for like 7.05. However, they canceled it all of a sudden. We had got a message earlier saying your flight has been canceled. Go to the app to see details. And we're like, why did they cancel? What's the point? So they basically were telling us that they were short staff. I'm like, where did everybody go? Where's the staff at? Bring them back. We need them here because we got somewhere to be. We are going to see our grandma because, unfortunately, she has moved on. Well, yeah. So we're trying to get. To Florida. However, with this whole situation, it's just, it's, it's annoying. It's annoying because, you know, we had to find a new flight. We had this awful Uber driver. We had, you know, to wait in the line. They were selling her that basically she didn't check in. How she ain't check in, but she got a check bag. Like that don't make no sense. So I'm like, is the app messed up? So y'all don't have no staff. Y'all app is messed up. Y'all got all these people early in the morning waiting in this long line. People got things to do, places to be. And I'm not going to sit here and wait all day because we. Because we have to go, so at this point we're just like, okay, let's just call it, we'll try to find a car, and at this point let's just go. Because it definitely looked like it was going to be at least another hour and a half before we even talked to somebody. What a hassle for that couple going through a hard time already having to deal with this mess, right? You've heard that gentleman say, where is everybody? Where is everyone gone? Well, of course, they're trying to reposition all those crews. Pilots only have a certain amount of hours, of course they're allowed to fly, or you have to have a certain amount of sleep, things of that nature. So dealing with all the twists and turns as far as what the rules are, regulations are for flying and trying to reposition those planes that some of the... I should say that some of the issues affecting these flights, these cancellations, so your best bet at this point is absolutely double check your status with your carrier, of course. Just be ready at this point, even though federal officials believe everything should get back and track by the end of today, close of business today, Sunday. We'll keep you up to date on what's happening here at Hartsfield-Jackson. In the meantime, I'm going to send it back to you in the studio, Tyler. Yeah, Caitlin, I really appreciate it. Things are getting better, way better than yesterday and even better than Friday. So hopefully by Monday, everything's going to be right back on track. Caitlin Pratt, thanks so much for the update on that story.