According to the analysis of the specialized site FlightAware, more than 3 thousand air flights scheduled for the day of Vigil and for the day of Christmas have been canceled all over the world, and more than 5 thousand have suffered or will suffer delays already announced. The discomforts had already begun Thursday, when more than 2,000 flights were canceled and another 16,000 were delayed. As some airlines have explained in recent days, the problems are directly attributable to the effects of the increase in coronavirus infections due to the widespread diffusion of the omicron variant. For now, the major Italian airports do not seem to be particularly involved.
Thursday the airline United Airlines has spread a statement in which he explained that he would have to cancel 120 flights scheduled for December 24 due to the “direct impact” of the variant on the crew and on the ground crew. Delta canceled 90 flights scheduled for Friday because “it had run out of options and resources” both due to staffing problems and some flights already canceled due to bad weather conditions.
A spokesperson for Sydney Airport, Australia, said the cancellation of 80 domestic flights departing or arriving at the city’s airport on Friday it’s causing problems to more than 500 other connections; also today, 52 flights were also canceled in Melbourne.
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