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Last memorial day? >> reporter: well, all airlines have hired and they've staffed up dramatically, thousands of pilots, and flight attendants, and gate agents, and ground crews, and they say that they are also ensuring that they adhere to the flight schedule that they have committed to with their passengers. but, listen, weather remains the big variable, so hopefully it'll continue to be good throughout the entire weekend, tom. >> all right, we hope that weather holds. tom, we thank you for that. now to the view on the ground, tens of millions are hitting the roads this holiday weekend, and ...

United predicts the busiest memorial day in more than a decade. delta expects 17% more passengers than last year. delta and american expecting to carry nearly three million passengers. since last summer, every airline has staffed up. more pilots, more flight attendants, gate agents, ticket crews, and ground staff. but a shortage of air traffic controllers is now forcing airlines to trim their schedules. and the biden administration wants airlines to compensate passengers with cash when flights are significantly delayed. on today, united's ceo scott kirby warned that could undermine safety. >> ...

>> folks, just back your patience today. try not to yell and scream at gate agents and crewmembers. it's not their fault. >> free drinks from the beverage cart. >> the fact that they knew about something last night i couldn't fix it by this morning shows that is pretty serious. thank you so much. back to a fox news alert. departures resuming in atlanta and newark after those faa outage this morning. takeoffs on hold until 9:00 a.m. for the rest of the country. 22 minutes. hold on tight. congressman andy biggs reacts live next. [coughing] hi, susan. honey. yeah. i respect that. but that cough l...

There are reports of southwest pilotses and crews, we think it will be better today, buts they were just as stranded and paying for their own hotel rooms and trying to get ahold of crew schedulers. crew members at southwest airlines, this goes back to the system at the airline and this is being discussed and what next phase will be. when you get taxpayer money, you use that appropriately, southwest did not do that, they did not upgrade computer system and software. when a company can't find their crews, i worked for southwest airlines, i have good friends flying there. there were reports of ga...

Height of it, he decided to go on maternity leave and i do care when there is issues with the rail strike, he flies over to portugal. now, it seems a little bit late. $7 billion went to this airline. >> cheryl: a half a billion dollars and that is our taxpayer money to be clear, everybody. but you know what, joey, i know you fly a lot, i fly a lot. it is not just the passenger suffering. there is this huge facebook by southwest pilot and he talked about the fact they can't get a hold of their schedulers. they couldn't get their own hotel rooms appear there is actually flight crews and the airp...