US Airlines and Delta Airlines announced overnight (Thursday-Friday) that they had canceled more than 200 Christmas Eve flights.
This was reported by the Reuters news agency.
According to the Reuters report, the airlines announced that the dramatic move was due to the spread of the omicron variant and the accompanying morbidity, which among other things affected the flight crews and other crews operating at the airports after some were forced into isolation.
United Airlines, based in Chicago, announced it had canceled 120 flights, along with Delta Airlines, whose controlling headquarters is located in Atlanta, that it has canceled about 90 flights.
The two companies announced that they are working to contact the passengers so that they do not arrive at the airports unnecessarily.
A statement from United Airlines said: "The global rise in omnipresent illness worldwide over the past week has had a direct impact on our aviation and other operating crews.
In a statement issued by Havat Delta following the wave of cancellations, it was stated, among other things, that it "exhausted all possibilities and resources - including redirecting flights and changing crews to cover scheduled flights - before canceling about 90 flights that were scheduled."
Meanwhile, morbidity in the United States is on the rise, with just 267,269 people being identified as positive carriers in the United States alone in the past day alone. So far in New York.
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