Airlines prepared for holiday travel boom

US airlines are well-prepared for the busy holiday travel period. Sharon Pinkerton, senior vice president for legislative and regulatory policy for Airlines for America, noted that they continue to add 4,600 employees per month. “We’re definitely better staffed, and we learned that lesson in 2021 and that was our rule going into 2022, is that we’re going to have the right resources available to fly the schedule,” said David Seymour, chief operating officer for American Airlines, adding that American is deploying a new analytics tool to help reroute disrupted operations most efficiently.