The United States is recording nearly 187,000 new daily cases, a 55 percent increase over the last two weeks, according to The New York Times’s coronavirus tracker. Lampkin said.Īt the Atlanta airport, the location of Delta’s headquarters, a line of about 30 people waited for a help desk in Terminal A, where two Delta employees were trying to sort things out for passengers with canceled and delayed flights.Ĭustomers took to social media to air their grievances about the cancellations.
“Hopefully that one doesn’t get canceled,” Mr. Joe Lampkin, a traveler from the Minneapolis area, was waiting near Gate D4 early Friday, trying to get on a flight later in the morning to Seattle, where his family is waiting for him. The impromptu accommodations emptied out before sunrise as those who had spent the night because of flight delays and cancellations tried to rebook their seats. Paul International Airport on the morning of Christmas Eve. Mats, blankets and pillows littered the floors of the Minneapolis-St. While most travelers have been able to get where they are going, hundreds of people who had anticipated the first near-normal holiday season in years when they booked, scrambled for alternatives.
Other airlines, including JetBlue and Allegiant, did the same, according to Flight Aware, although American Airlines said that it currently had no flight cancellations. The cancellations were caused by “a combination of issues, including weather and Omicron-related issues, and Delta expected at least 150 more cancellations over the weekend, spokeswoman Kate Modolo said.Īlaska Airlines had 17 cancellations on Thursday after a growing number of crew members reported exposure to the virus, but the carrier only needed to scrap nine flights on Friday, according to a spokesperson.
The Atlanta-based airline was exhausting “all options and resources,” including rerouting and substituting planes and crews to cover scheduled flights. At least 44 more flights on Saturday have already been canceled, he added.Ī spokeswoman for Delta Air Lines said that it had canceled 158 of the 3,100 flights scheduled for Friday, Christmas Eve, one of the most hectic travel days of the year. United Airlines canceled 176 flights of the 4,000 domestic and international flights scheduled at dozens of airports on Friday, mostly the result of crew members calling in sick, said Joshua Freed, a spokesman for the Chicago-based carrier. Although the cancellations represented a relatively small percentage of the roughly 80,000 arrivals on any given day, they were a jarring disruption in a holiday season shadowed by the highly transmissible Omicron variant, which now accounts for more than 70 percent of new coronavirus cases in the United States. The number of cancellations globally for Christmas Eve and Christmas Day added up to more than 3,800, the Flight Aware website showed, with more than 1,000 in the United States. Thousands of would-be travelers received last-minute cancellations of their Christmas flights on Friday and Saturday because of the recent spike of Omicron cases, including among airline workers. Travelers attempted to navigate disruptions on the morning of Christmas Eve at Kennedy International Airport in Queens.
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