Passengers heading back home after the Memorial Day weekend were furious over several flight cancellations and delays. It was said to be a total chaos turning up with more than 3,000 flights globally being held up.

More than 39.2 million Americans are forecast to be travelling—by car, air, or other forms of transport, such as buses and trains—for the holiday weekend. The number is a sharp increase of 8.3 percent from 2021.

Travel volumes are coming back to the pre-pandemic figures as several countries have open their borders for tourism, making analysts believe that Americans are confident about travelling despite the increased costs.

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Plane tracking website Flight Aware reported that more than 3,000 flights around the world were held or canceled so far on Monday, with 2,430 planes delayed and 841 canceled entirely.

In terms of flights within the US, some 340 planes have been delayed while 241 have been canceled.

On Sunday, 16,425 delays and 1,6,41 cancellations internationally were reported. The US reported 4,922 flights delayed, and 546 cancellations within, into, or out of the country.

Furious passengers tweeted their woes from airport lounges, with one person sharing a video showing a woman sobbing on the floor of an airline terminal as her flight had been  canceled ahead of a trip to Cancun in Mexico with friends on her birthday.

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While another passenger wrote: “Instead of canceling the flight hours ago, @delta had me waiting from 3:50pm till 12:04am just to tell me my flight was canceled.”

And a third posted: “So our flight from Savannah to Miami has just been canceled out of the blue not other flights available on the day wtf do we do.”