US cancelled more 1000 flights
US cancelled more 1000 flights
US flights and Airlines greeted the New Year with more than 6,500
weekend cancellations in the US., closing out a bumpy holiday season
as a winter storm swept eastward and carriers dealt with staff shortages
caused by the rapid spread of the omicron variant.
Cancellations of flights into, out of and within the US. reached 2,500 as of
5:25 p.m. Sunday afternoon along with about 6,400 delays,
according to the tracking firm FlightAware.com.
That followed cancellations of more than 2,700 flights Saturday and at least
1,300 on Friday, which was New Year’s Eve.
With more than 800 US. flights already dropped for Monday,
it won’t be much easier for travelers attempting to return home after the
bumpy holiday season.
The busy travel period has been snarled by at least 13,000 canceled flights
since Christmas Eve as record Covid-19 infections contribute to worker
shortages at airports and in the cockpits.