6,300 flights have been suspended as Omicron arrives for Christmas weekend | Coronavirus Plague News
More than 6,000 flights have been grounded around the world over the long Christmas weekend and thousands more have been delayed, according to the website, as the highly infectious Omicron model causes holiday problems for millions.
Adding to the travel turmoil in the United States, the dangerous weather in the western part of the country is due to damage to roads and other roads there, although it could bring a white Christmas week to cities in the northwestern US states of Seattle and Portland.
According to Flightaware.com, about 2,800 flights were flown around the world on Saturday, including more than 970 departures from or to the US airport, with more than 8,000 delays starting from 01:30 GMT.
On Friday, there were about 2,400 bans and 11,000 delays, while Sunday bans exceeded 1,100.
Pilots, pilots and other personnel have been making sick calls or in isolation after encountering COVID-19, forcing Lufthansa, Delta, United Airlines, JetBlue, Alaska Airlines and many other passenger passengers to block flights for one year. travel times.
“Help @united flight has been banned again. I want to get home for Christmas,” one angry passenger from the US state of Vermont sent off the first flight on Saturday.
Flightaware data shows that United suspended about 200 flights on Friday and about 250 on Saturday – about 10 percent of those planned.
A dispute over the transfer of pilots and aircraft and redistribution of staff was ongoing, but Omicron’s surgery has boosted business.
“The global increase in Omicron cases this week has had a profound effect on our pilots and the people who run our operations,” United said Friday.
“As a result, we unfortunately left other aircraft and notified the affected customers before arriving at the airport,” the aircraft said.
Similarly, Delta dropped 310 flights on Saturday and had already closed several flights on Sunday, saying it had “exhausted all means and facilities – including repairing and modifying flights and crews to evacuate”.
“We apologize to our customers for the delay in their vacation plans,” the company said.
The failure has added to the frustration of the epidemic for many people who want to be reunited with their families on vacation after last year’s Christmas rites.
China Airlines’ flights were suspended, with China Eastern taking off more than 1,000 flights – more than 20 percent of its flight plans – on Friday and Saturday, while Air China regained about 20 percent of its departure flights during that time.
Snow ‘deception’
According to estimates by the American Automobile Association, more than 109 million Americans had to travel by airplane, train or car between December 23 and January 2, an increase of 34 percent over the previous year.
But much of this was done before the start of Omicron, which has become a major coronavirus problem in the US, destroying some hospitals and health care workers.
The New York government announced Friday that it has issued 44,431 new COVID-19 tests daily, a record, while new cases are being repeated nationwide.
Looking at the weather, despite the fact that freezing temperatures were in the eastern hemisphere, the National Weather Service (NWS) announced hurricane warnings, including freezing temperatures in the western hemisphere.
“Extreme cold temperatures and high humidity in the Pacific lead to prolonged snowfall and coastal / low rainfall, some of which can be heavy at times,” the NWS said in a statement.
A clear snow of 61-122cm (24-48 inches) is expected to fall this weekend, with heavy snowfall in some areas, north and between the Sierra mountains of California and Oregon.
Travel will be “tricky sometimes impossible” from Sierras to the Rocky Mountains over the weekend due to snow, the NWS added.
