The Corona variant Omikron and the weather mix up the airlines’ Christmas party. Connections had to be canceled worldwide. The USA is particularly affected.
Over Christmas, numerous flights around the world were canceled due to pilots reported sick. US air traffic was particularly affected, as the flight data website Flight Aware showed on Saturday.
On Christmas Day alone, more than 2,300 flights were canceled worldwide, around 800 of them in the USA. On Christmas Eve there had already been a similar number.
According to US media reports, the highly contagious Omikron variant is the main cause. The New York Times, for example, quotes a Delta Airlines spokeswoman who lists “a combination of problems, including weather and omicron-related problems.” A spokesman for the airline United states that crew members are sick as the main cause. Omikron is now dominant in the USA. The number of corona cases has recently skyrocketed.
Even at Lufthansa failures
Lufthansa also announced on the Thursday before Christmas that it would have to cancel six pairs of flights from the outward and return flights between 23 and 26 December because so many pilots had called in sick. It remains that the number of canceled flights has not increased further, said a spokesman for the German press agency on Saturday. In addition to a connection to Tokyo, the German airline also mainly affects US destinations such as Houston, Boston and Washington. The company did not want to speculate about a connection with Omikron, as Lufthansa was not informed about the nature of the illnesses.
Flight Aware also showed hundreds of canceled flights worldwide for Boxing Day.
According to its own information, Flight Aware tracks aircraft worldwide and records their take-off times, landing times and delay information from the air traffic control systems of states as well as with their own ground stations and with satellites.
Source From: Stern
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