Millions of people are still flying, despite increasing coronary heart disease. But many holidaymakers leaving on Christmas Eve unfortunately did not make it to this year’s Christmas dinner.
Internationally, over 4,000 flights are canceled over the Christmas weekend. The reason is increased infection among the employees and lack of crew. The many planes that had to be on the ground on Christmas Eve hit the Americans hardest. Hundreds of the canceled trips were to be domestic, in or out of the USA.
Many who had planned to go home for Christmas therefore had to spend Christmas Eve at airports and hotels, hoping to depart later in Christmas.
The airline United airlines writes in a press release that the many cancellations are due to increased omicron infection both among flight personnel and employees on the ground, according to the news agency Reuters.
–But it is not just air traffic workers who now have to throw in the towel.
In the UK, various industrial companies and transport companies are also struggling with staff shortages due to the quarantine rules and the rapid spread of the omicron virus. Several British hospitals have warned that the high sickness absence could affect the patient’s safety.
One in 20 residents of London is now infected with corona. This number is expected to increase to one in ten infected residents within a week, according to official statistics for the British capital.
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