Posted on 12/26/2021 11:14:08 AM PST by SeekAndFind
As the holiday weekend draws to a close, it has been anything but merry for tens of thousands of stranded airline passengers who had their flight canceled due to a flare-up of the omicron variant that resulted in staffing shortages of pilots and crew for several major airline carriers. Data tracker FlightAware.com shows US flight cancellations exceeded 2,400 in just the past 48 hours.
The situation has yet to ease on Sunday as total cancellations within, into, or out of the U.S. topped 754 flights as of 1300 ET. On Christmas day, U.S. cancellations topped nearly 1,000.
Henry Harteveldt, president of travel consulting firm Atmosphere Research Group, told Bloomberg that air travel disruptions might extend into the next week.
Flight cancellations are a "concern at a time when people are traveling to spend time with family and friends for the holidays," Harteveldt said. "No airline wants to be viewed as the Grinch who stole Christmas."
In our reporting of the travel chaos that began on Christmas Eve and continued through the weekend (read: here & here), we noted Delta Air Lines Inc. and United Airlines Holdings Inc. were the carriers most affected by labor shortages. Both airlines acknowledged cancellations were due to an outbreak of the omicron variant.
Flight cancellations due to staffing shortages have been nothing new for airlines.
Many travelers who had their flights canceled or delayed vented on social media this weekend.
Let's hope Harteveldt isn't right that travel disruptions could persist through New Year's Eve because that would officially make this holiday travel season one of the worst in years.
Climate change, rogue airline employees, and greedy fuel companies. How long until these airlines are “investigated by a blue ribbon congressional commission”?
Hahahahahahahahahahaha
Too bad, so sad.
I refuse to fly until all mandates are lifted and I travel for a living.
I would much rather drive my car than wear a Face Diaper on these Air Planes
They can KMA!!!!!
Additional problem is that we have had a snow storm here in the Seattle area. News said that we haven't had this strong of a storm for a decade. I am hoping hubby and the rest of my family make it back from the airport. Strange day.
Wouldn't it be more correct to say that the airlines were screwed by the Federal Govt? The mandates originated with the Biden regime.
Mandates kill....................your business, keep up the woke good work
Yes. But when you decide to go bareback, willingly, with a rodeo clown then you better make sure the clown does not have AIDS.
If you take your seat but then see yesterday's perky flight attendants paging through "Your First Take Off and Landing: An illustrated Guide" then get up and leave immediately.
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My boss vacationed in Britain. I wonder if he got back.
The first and only time I’ve been on tv was due to flight weather delays. I was at the St. Louis Lambert Field trying to get home for Christmas my freshman year of college. Unbeknownst to me, the news crew filmed me bored and snoozing like those kids in the photos. When I got back to school, I learned from friends I was on the news! But I never did see the footage of me as a tv star.
Boosters, I tell ya .... mandates and boosters will solve the staffing problems.... unless they die or get sick from the jabs.
Did Dr. Fasci ok this?
I think you’ve hit on one or two of the spikes on this ohmygosh variant,
The gullibility virus has apparently joined with this new variant.
But, NO Mean Tweets!!!!!
Delayed at O’Hare? That’s fairly common, no?
Personally I don’t believe the Omicron excuse. I am of the mind it is a shortage of Jet fuel and oil.
One year without Pipelines can have a definite effect on the production and distribution of JP4 jet fuel. When the shortage hist Diesel we will see the next phase of the economy getting hit even harder.
Not necessarily..between subsidies and tax deductions you will see them survive just fine...Watch the stock price....
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