Almost every airline at Pittsburgh International Airport affected by changes, cancellations

PITTSBURGH — From United to Breeze to Delta, almost every airline at Pittsburgh International Airport is making changes.

“We are heading to Midlands, TX for work and they cancelled our flight like right as I got to the counter,” said Brooks Hobbs.

Staffing troubles is the reason this group was given. Now after a second cancelled flight, they are just waiting another four hours before takeoff.

“Watching the news, the other day them and five other airlines had a bunch of flights cancelled so I figured it was inevitable,” Hobbs said.

In total, 5300 flights were cancelled over the weekend in the country and Monday is already on the same path.

Breeze Airways telling Channel 11 all its flights out of Pittsburgh were cancelled on Monday.

While staffing and COVID played a factor, most of its issues came from weather out of Virginia.

“I think they’ve given us three changes, it just keeps bouncing around probably issues with the plane coming in for our flight out,” said Sheldon Jones.

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These travelers’ eyes are glued to the boards as they hope and wait that the delays don’t change to cancelled.

“It’s incredibly frustrating, you just don’t know what to count on, it’s been a challenge going from one airport to the next. I mean, tomorrow it looks like if I do want to get back, I’m going to have to go through St. Louis to get to Ft. Lauderdale,” said James Franskousky.

The hope among travel experts is that the cancellations decrease by mid-January once Omicron cases peak.

“You just got to hope for the best and enjoy the adventure,” Franskousky said.

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