Some 6,300 flights were canceled by airlines around the world over the Christmas weekend, with Omicron mutation disrupt travel during the holidays, as company employees – mostly pilots – were quarantined.
According to the latest report of the specialized website Flightaware, yesterday, Saturday, almost 2,800 cancellations were recorded, of which 970 were flights connected to the USA, either international or domestic.
On Friday, about 2,400 cancellations were recorded according to the same source, which is already expecting more than 1,100 cancellations. flights today Sunday.
Pilots, flight attendants and other crew members have been quarantined for exposure to Covid, which led Lufthansa, Delta and United Airlines to cancel flights.
According to the Flightaware website, United Airlines was forced to cancel almost 439 flights on Friday and Saturday, about 10% of those scheduled. “Omicron outbreaks across the country this week have had a direct impact on our crews and the people responsible for our operation.”, the American company said, adding that it is trying to find solutions for the passengers who were affected by the cancellations.
Chinese airlines were the ones with the most cancellations: China Eastern canceled nearly 540 flights, more than a quarter of scheduled flights, while Air China canceled 267 flights, also about a quarter of scheduled flights.
Fortunately, these problems did not affect Santa’s journey, which has been monitored for decades by the North American Aerospace Defense Administration (NORAD).
NORAD calculated that this year 7,623,693,263 gifts were distributed, after monitoring the course of the sleigh thanks, as he explained, to a sensor that was placed in the muzzle of a reindeer.
This tradition started with a mistake. In 1955, a Colorado newspaper, wanting to publish the number of a telephone line for children to talk to Santa Claus, mistakenly printed the telephone of the military administration, which has since decided to participate in this Christmas game.
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