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.