Washington: Americans who returned home from vacation trips had to fight on another day of Chaos Chaos weeks, with more than 2,600 flights were canceled due to bad weather or the misery of airline staff triggered by the surge in Covid cases.
Further disturbances are predicted for Monday, as a winter storm blows east.
At 10:00 a.m.
(0300 GMT Monday), more than 2,650 domestic or international flights began or finishing in the United States had been canceled – almost as much as 2,750 was removed for Saturday, the Flighteare flight tracking service said.
That number represents more than half of nearly 4,400 flights canceled throughout the world.
Nearly 8,600 US flights were delayed.
Southwest Airlines, one of the most devastated operators, had to cancel about 400 flights on Sunday morning, a spokesman said in an email to AFP, added that it expected further cancellation.
Passenger Nick Kagy was beside himself after the southwest flight was canceled.
“Are you kidding me @southwestair,” he wrote on Twitter.
“We waited for almost 3 hours to resell because we couldn’t re-order online, and after finishing something (not really entirely) resolved, you canceled our second flight to another airport.” On Saturday, bad weather, many related to Winter Storm Frida, were forced by southwest to cancel 490 flights, mostly in northern countries in the south of Great Plains.
The result: intense frustration for many travelers.
“It’s crazy,” Tweeted Haley, another southwestern passenger who tried to fly out of Chicago.
“This is the 3rd cancellation and still not at home.
Should a house 4 days ago !!!” Airports in Chicago – The main transit center – is the most affected Saturday, but on Sunday airports in Atlanta, Denver, Detroit, Houston, and Newark are also difficult.
A woman named Kayla described its own trials: “I should go home at 10:30 yesterday morning.
And at this time I already have 3 canceled flights and one delayed to the point where I missed my connection.” Worldwide, air traffic has suffered from Snarls since Christmas because of the issue of airports of airline which is associated with the spread of an omicron coronavirus variant which is very contagious.
Many pilots and flight attendants have abolished pain after testing positive viruses or forced to quarantine due to contact with someone who has a virus.
It has left the operator with the lack of staff and forces them to delay or cancel flights.
The latest chaos of the trip brings a Christmas weekend echo that makes frustration, when around 7,500 flights around the world are deleted.
And flight cancellation cleaning has become a big challenge for many people.
One traveler, Eric Crawford, described the frustration while trying to call the Delta airline agent to reschedule.
“It is estimated that the time of waiting is 22+ hours to talk to representatives about flights canceled,” he said on Twitter, “not the best appearance to start 2022.” And Kowstick Boddu offered this account, also on Twitter, about the problem with Alaska Air: “We should fly out of Fairbanks to San Jose on December 30, but our flight is rescheduled to this day which is finally canceled again ??? Long hours waiting for calls Customers, no response and flights that have not been re-ordered? Need help !! “Travel misery is expected to continue until Monday, the first working day of 2022.
Storm Frida will continue on the path that is disturbing to the east, said meteorologists, carrying snow to The extensive plot of Washington is located on the mid-coast of the Atlantic to Boston, North Massachusetts.
Nearly 1,400 Monday flights have been canceled inside, becoming or out of the United States.