By mid-morning Eastern Time on Tuesday, more than four thousand seven hundred flights had been cancelled and over three thousand one hundred delayed.
Over sixty per cent of the cancellations were from hard-hit Southwest Airlines, which called off over two thousand five hundred flights.
The chaos has left thousands of exasperated passengers sleeping in terminals as they search for solutions.
More than three thousand five hundred flights scheduled to leave Wednesday have already been cancelled, with Southwest constituting just over sixty per cent of those cancellations.
In a separate tweet on Tuesday, US President Joe Biden said that his administration is “working to ensure airlines are held accountable” for disruptions.
He urged that passengers check to see whether they are entitled to compensation.
