Thousands of prospective tourists received the same problematic message on Thursday: the last minute cancellation from their Eve Christmas flight because of the surge in Omicron cases recently.
United Airlines canceled at least 150 scheduled flights to leave dozens of Friday airports – together with 44 more that should take off on Saturday, according to a conscious flight.
Other airlines, including Delta, JetBlue and Ategiant, do the same.
In Australia, dozens of flights were also canceled at the airports in the big cities of Sydney and Melbourne as the case of Coronavirus in the country soared to their highest since the start of Pandemi.
The number of global cancellation on Thursday night to Friday morning was added to more than 1,500, the website showed.
It is the latest blow to the holiday season caused by new omicron variants and very transparent, which now accounts for more than 70% of new coronavirus cases in the United States.
Nearly 170,000 people are testing positive every day in this country, a 38% increase over the past two weeks, according to the Coronavirus New York Times tracker.
In his statement, United said that “the direct impact of Omicron on our flight crew and the people who carry out our operations” lead to cancellations.
The crew member had called sick, according to spokesman for Yosua Freed, who said that United would know the customer as soon as possible.
And while Freed said he did not expect airline to cancel more flights, it remained like a possibility.
“We really managed today during the day,” he said.
“There may be some flight cancellation again for Saturday.
That’s possible.” Dozens of customers bring to social media to balance their complaints about the last minute cancellation.
In his statement, this airline said he was working to resell as many people as possible for vacation.
In Australia, who has recorded more than 500 omicron cases, many airline staff members cannot work after being identified as close contact of the cases of positive Koronavirus, airline officials said.
Under government requirements, they were asked to isolate for seven days.
“A large number of our frontline team members are asked to test and isolate because close contact given the increasing number of cases in the general community,” representatives for Jetstar Airways said by email on Friday local time.
“As a result, we must do some late adjustments for our schedule.” Eighty flights came and departed on December 24 from Sydney, the populated city of the country, had been canceled, airport spokesman said, out of a total of 500.
According to Melbourne airport flight tracking sites, more than 70 departing flights or arriving from the airport on December 24 have also been canceled , out of 700 flights.
Brisbane airport said that 45 flights had been canceled.