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American Airlines has canceled hundreds of flights in the next month, mainly due to a staffing shortage, rising travel demand, and other issues. American, the world’s largest carrier by fleet size and passengers carried, canceled more than 300 flights on Saturday (June 19th) and Sunday (June 20th) due to the issues. An American Airlines spokeswoman told CNN, “The first few weeks of June have brought unprecedented weather to our largest hubs, heavily impacting our operation and causing delays, canceled flights and disruptions to crew member schedules and our customers’ plans. That, combined with the labor shortages some of our vendors are contending with and the incredible quick ramp up of customer demand, has led us to build in additional resilience and certainty to our operation by adjusting a fraction of our scheduled flying.” She added that the flight cancellations will occur in markets where there are “multiple options” to accommodate passengers. American says it expects between 50 and 80 cancellations per day over the coming weeks.