The Briefing Room
General Category => National/Breaking News => Topic started by: libertybele on December 31, 2021, 01:31:18 am
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Over 1,000 flight cancellations Thursday: Are cancellations, delays the new normal this winter
Each day for a week now, travelers across the country have scrambled as thousands of flights have been canceled and delayed.
More than 1,000 U.S. flights have been canceled Thursday and more than 5,000 have been delayed, according to FlightAware, which tracks flight status in real-time. There have been more than 8,000 cancellations and more than 42,000 delays within, to or from the U.S. since Christmas Eve.
"We look at flights but see, the thing is they're connected to people," said Captain Dennis Tajer, an American Airlines pilot and spokesperson for their pilots union, Allied Pilots Association. "For each one of those passengers, there may be five to 10 family members and friends that were counting on them being at the holiday table."
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While Southwest has attributed this week's flight disruptions to winter weather, many other U.S. airlines have also cited COVID cases among staff as contributing factors.
There were more than 1.8 million new COVID cases reported in the U.S. this past week according to USA TODAY analysis of Johns Hopkins data. Flu cases have been on the rise, too...............
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