Posted on 12/24/2021 2:15:44 AM PST by EBH
Hundreds of flights have been canceled between Christmas Eve and Christmas Day – with one airline blaming Omicron’s toll on staffing.
United Airlines canceled about 120 flights Friday and another 28 on Saturday, the company said.
“The nationwide spike in Omicron cases this week has had a direct impact on our flight crews and the people who run our operation,” a United Airlines spokesperson told The Post.
The company said they are reaching out to customers affected by the cancellations before they head to the airport.
Delta Air Lines is also facing cancellations on the same two days.
As of about 8:30 p.m., the airline has scrapped 92 flights on Christmas Eve — accounting for four percent of the day’s total trips, according to Flight Aware.
On Christmas Day, Delta canceled 84 flights — or two percent of the trips that day, the site said.
Weather is also factoring into the Delta cancellations, with winter storms impacting the Seattle and Salt Lake City area.
“Delta teams have exhausted all options and resources — including rerouting and substitutions of aircraft and crews to cover scheduled flying — before canceling around 90 flights for Friday,” a spokesperson told The Post.
“We apologize to our customers for the delay in their holiday travel plans. Delta people are working hard to get them to where they need to be as quickly and as safely as possible on the next available flight,” the spokesperson said.
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Amazing how we survived flu season all the past years.
aka, people are getting the common cold.
The test is a lie, the numbers are a lie, the scare is a lie, the massively overinflated death numbers are a lie. We've been lied to about this from day 1.
Full Agreement
Nope
“The nationwide spike in Omicron cases this week has had a direct impact on our flight crews and the people who run our operation,” a United memo said, which was obtained by CNN.
Well, I do not know how it is where you are ...but living in Cleveland right now it is a (insert word here) show.
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The rest of Ohio doesn’t look too bad. Reporting appears to be up to date..
https://coronavirus.ohio.gov/wps/portal/gov/covid-19/dashboards/key-metrics/hospitalizations
Is it possible that airline employees who have been coerced into taking a “vaccine” against their will might have little loyalty to a once-beloved employer who obviously cares nothing for its people? Call in sick during the holidays? You betcha.
“Call in sick”
2 week quarantine for Christmas and New Years at home.
That’s the ticket!
Well....those GI’s who left Europe ten days ago and were supposed to fly back by 2 Jan....are probably calling their units and asking for advice. They might have to find Air Force cargo plane options to return to duty.
Not Omicron..but rather Omicron panic.
Silly gullible humans.
Yeah...and that’s just here in the Cleveland area! Thank God I am working this weekend.
It is a cold for God’s sake, I HATE the media more than that I HATE the people who listen to the LYING media!!!
Yea, Cleveland is a hotspot right now. Last I heard we were in the top 3 areas for viral spread.
“I’m with you on your tagline; except I don’t care who knows about it! “
LOL! But I have a REPUTATION to maintain here. If I don’t bitch about McDonald’s and Walmart, then I won’t appear ‘sophisticated’.
“Another possibility is that the airline employees called out with the sniffles and a cough so they could spend Christmas at home with the family, forcing the airlines to cancel numerous flights. It’s not unheard of for someone to call out with a fake illness.”
That is true...but of course can happen any time. It’s also possible that there may be some type of contract dispute going on.
Demand for COVID-19 testing at Cleveland Hopkins International Airport increases with holiday travelers
https://www.cleveland19.com/2021/12/23/demand-covid-19-testing-cleveland-hopkins-international-airport-increases-with-holiday-travelers/
You would think the people who got duped by this coldvid scam would be more pissed than the ones who didn’t?
But I suppose like docile compliant sheep they don’t get to worked up?
A friend of mine went to South Africa a few weeks ago to visit family and was going to return around the first of the year. Looks like he’ll have to rent a car and drive back.
I’ve said that about civilization.
It’s amazing we’ve made as long as we did.
The new virus is Liberalism.
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