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FILE PHOTO: A United Airlines Boeing 737 MAX 9 jetliner is grounded, as passengers try to rebook their tickets from cancelled United Airlines flights after U.S. air safety regulator the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) grounded 171 Boeing 737 MAX 9 jetliners for safety checks because of the emergency landing of an Alaska Airlines plane, at Luis Munoz Marin International Airport in San Juan, Puerto Rico January 7, 2024. REUTERS/Miguel J. Rodriguez Carrillo/File Photo
A group representing major U.S. airlines forecast record summer travel with carriers expected to transport 271 million passengers, up 6.3%.
Airlines for America said Tuesday that U.S. carriers plan to fly more than 26,000 daily flights this summer, up nearly 1,400 over 2023, or 5.6%, when they carried 255 million passengers. The summer travel season forecast is for June 1 to Aug. 31.
(Reporting by David Shepardson; editing by Jonathan Oatis)
