Good morning. Welcome to Axios Today, it's Thursday, June 30th. I'm Erica Pandy, Infernala

Boudou. Here's what you need to know today. How the end of Roe v Wade could affect IVF. Plus,

the changing face of NATO. But first, today's one big thing. The air travel mess hits the

4th of July. If you've traveled by plane this summer, you already know just how bad air travel

is right now. If you haven't, you've probably heard stories of canceled flights, long delays,

and sky-high ticket prices. As Americans get ready for the 4th of July, at least one airline

is already sending out warnings of what could be a chaotic travel weekend. Axios's

Joanne Mueller joins us now with what to expect. Hey, Joanne. Hi, Erica. Let's start with the big

picture. How much worse is what we're expecting for the 4th of July than a normal holiday travel

weekend? Well, Erica, it's really pretty bad. Bernie Sanders is complaining about this to the

Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg. He wrote a letter this week and said that one out of

every five flights in the US has been delayed and airlines are canceling flights four times as

often on high travel weekends than they did before the pandemic back in 2019. We heard from Delta

Airlines this week warning of, quote, operational challenges that are expected this weekend. What do

they mean by that? And how are they preemptively addressing it? Well, Delta's been having a lot of

problems in the last few weeks. I mean, all airlines are, but it's been particularly bad at Delta.

What's interesting is they're trying to be a little proactive here. They've already cut

about 10 percent, I think, of their flights for the summer, which is very extraordinary. They've

also now are offering people the opportunity to change their flight off of one of the really

busy travel days and do it for free. So they're not letting you, like, reschedule your entire

vacation until all this gets settled, but they are saying, hey, can you help us out by spreading

out the demand a little bit? And like you said, they're not the only airline that's going through

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