Journera welcomes Courtney Brooks VP, Enterprise Sales.

The numbers would give anyone pause. For travelers, though, they add up to delays that can mean anything from a minor inconvenience to the ruin of journey of a lifetime.In the United States in 2022, delayed or canceled flights affected 200 million passengers.Disrupted flights in the U.S. totaled $34 billion in costs.And so far in 2023, nearly a quarter of U.S. flights have been delayed.Those statistics aren’t likely to improve anytime soon.“As climate change happens, these disruptions are going to be more frequent, they’re going to be more intense,” Jeff Katz, founder and CEO of Journera, told a Center Stage audience at The Phocuswright Conference in Fort Lauderdale. . Get a dose of digital travel in your inbox each day

It was Friday, September 29, and a young family from Brooklyn was headed to Orlando for a weekend of theme parks, restaurants and splashing in the hotel pool, where the afternoon high temperature would reach 88 degrees. They never got there.A weak low-pressure area developed off the east coast of the United States the day prior as it absorbed the remains of Tropical Storm Ophelia. The weather system then stalled over the region, dropping heavy rainfall across areas that were already under a flood watch after Ophelia had moved through just days earlier. . Get a dose of digital travel in your inbox each day