US airlines suspended hundreds of flights for the third day in a row on Sunday due to growing Covid-19 infections from the variant. Omicron they grounded crews and forced tens of thousands of travelers to change their Christmas weekend plans.
The commercial airlines 656 flights were canceled in, to or out of U.S Sunday, slightly down from nearly 1,000 on Christmas Day and nearly 700 on Dec. 24, according to a tally on flight-tracking website FlightAware.com.
More cancellations and more than 920 flights were likely to be delayed.
The holidays of Christmas These are often a key time for air travel, but the rapid spread of the Omicron variant has led to a sharp increase in infections by Covid-19, which has forced airlines to cancel flights with pilots and crew who must be in quarantine.
Delta Air Lines Inc it expected more than 300 of its flights to be canceled on Sunday.
Globally, FlightAware data showed that nearly 2,150 flights were canceled on Sunday and another 5,798 were delayed.
Omicron It was first detected in November and now accounts for nearly three-quarters of cases in the United States and up to 90% in some areas, such as the East Coast. The average number of new coronavirus cases in U.S It rose 45% to 179,000 a day over the past week, according to a Reuters tally.
While recent research suggests that Ómicron produces milder disease and a lower rate of hospitalizations than previous variants of Covid-19, health officials have kept a cautious note on the outlook.
Reference-www.eleconomista.com.mx