New York: More than 6,000 flights have been canceled throughout the world during a long Christmas weekend and thousands of others were delayed, a tracking website reported Sunday, because the omicron variant was very contagious carrying millions.
Adding to the chaos of travel in the United States, severe weather in the west of this country will cause chaos on the highway and other routes there even though it might bring a white Christmas weekend to the northwestern area of ​​Seattle and Portland.
According to FlightAware.com, more than 2,800 flights were rubbed around the world on Saturday, including more than 990 originating from or to US airport, with more than 8,500 delays at 0500 GMT.
On Friday, there were around 2,400 cancellations and 11,000 delays, while the cancellation of Sunday nearly 1,500 with more than 1,400 delays was also reported.
Pilots, flight officers and other employees have called sick or must quarantine after Covid’s exposure, forcing Lufthansa, Delta, United Airlines, JetBlue, Alaska Airlines, and many other short-staff operators to cancel flights on one year of travel.
period.
“Help @United Flight canceled again.
I want to go home for Christmas,” a traveler who was annoyed from the US state Vermont tweeted to the airline early Saturday.
Flightware data showed United canceled around 200 flights on Friday and nearly 250 Saturday – around 10 percent of those scheduled.
The struggle for changing the pilot and aircraft routes and rewarding employees is ongoing, but the surge in Omicron has improved the business.
“The national spike in the Omicron case this week has had a direct impact on our flight crew and the people who carry out our operations,” United said in a statement on Friday.
“As a result, we unfortunately have to cancel several flights and notify the affected customers before they come to the airport,” the airline said.
Similarly, Delta breathes 310 Saturday flights and has canceled more than 100 weeks, saying it has “fatigue all options and resources – including routes and replacing aircraft and crew to cover scheduled flying.” “We apologize to our customers for the delay on their vacation trips,” said the company.
Cancellation was added to the frustration of the pandemic for many people who want to reunite with their families during the holidays, after last year’s Christmas was very limited.
The Chinese airline contributed the highest cancellation number, with China Eastern Hote more than 1,000 flights, more than 20 percent of her flight plans, on Friday and Saturday and Air China also graned around 20 percent of scheduled departures during the period.
According to estimates of the American Automobile Association, more than 109 million Americans are scheduled to travel by plane, train or car between December 23 and January 2, a 34 percent increase over the past year.
But most of the plan was made before the Omicron outbreak, which has become the dominant tension in the United States, flooded several hospitals and health workers.
The New York state announced Friday that recorded 44,431 new daily positive covid tests, records, while new cases also surged nationally.
In front of the weather, while the warm warm temperature is the United States bath, the National Weather Service announces the winter storm warnings including deep freezing for important western parts.
“The cold conditions and a series of Pacific moisture produce a period of lingering mountain snow and coastal / valley rain, some of which may fall heavily at times,” NWS said in an advisor.
Snow two to four feet (61 to 122 centimeters) are expected to fall this weekend, with higher accumulation in several places, in the North and Central Sierra Mountains and Oregon and California.
The journey will be “dangerous at the impossible time” from Sierras to the middle Rocky Mountains on weekends because of the snow white condition, added NWS.