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During covid -- and i remember traveling a lot, i was flying a lot for fox, you know, parents were having such a tough time with keeping the masks -- >> that was horrible. thank god that's over. >> and parents were being thrown off planes. i saw that with my own eyes. >> it's about basic decorum. >> civility. and in those tight confines with the ridiculous spacing -- oh, the double armrest -- >> what about that -- >> i'm sorry. >> each person can have one. >> you know, i fly southwest. the guy in the middle to got there last, i'm sorry, i'm taking both armrests. but griff -- [laughter] i'm in ...

Travel, with more than 51,000 flights taking to the skies. cbs's kris van cleave reports on how airlines are hoping to avoid a repeat of last year's turbulence. >> reporter: jammed freeways >> it's a lot of people if you're buying from a really small place, so this is a little bit overwhelming. >> reporter: since saturday, tsa has screened over 12.1 million people, nearly 700,000 more than 2019. airlines added thousands of employees since last summer, when more than 45,000 flights were canceled. >> the biggest issue we have is whether an air traffic control delays. that is what we need to focu...

By every nearly arriving and departing flight. last summer, it was short staffed during more than 200 shifts. documents reveal over seven weeks that the faa believes staffing problems delayed 4,622 flights, nearly 1 in 10 of all delays statewide. >> it has just a domino effect throughout the industry. >> reporter: at tampa international airport, the executive vice president of operations began monitoring the staffing problems as passengers began getting stranded. in june, he wrote the faa saying what's odd to me is that the only faa facility that seems to be having staffing issues is jacksonvi...

Documents reveal over seven weeks the faa believed staffing problems delayed a total of 4,622 flights, nearly 1 in 10 of all delays statewide. >> it has just a domino effect throughout the industry. >> reporter: at tampa international airport, executive vice president of operations began monitoring the staffing problems as passengers began getting stranded. in june, he wrote the faa saying what what's odd to me is that the only faa facility that seems to be having staffing issues is jacksonville center. >> obviously, asked the question what are you going to do about it? what is the faa doing t...

On the auter malfunction. about two hours later, the solve effects from the bacst eye for e airline. in december, staffing issues, technical issues and whether caused southwest to cancel nearly 17,000 flights. kyle symes found his travel plans up ended then and again today. >> we were trapped in st. louis for seven days over christmas, and we are using our flight credit from that trip to go to hawaii right now. so we are kind of like bruce a little bit, but not broken. >> southwest coo apologized for decembers debacle. >> let me be clear, we messed up. >> blaming today's delays on an outside v...