COVID-19: Around 8,000 flights cancelled globally over Christmas weekend due to coronavirus
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(Worthy News) – Around 8,000 flights were canceled globally over Christmas weekend as airlines experienced staff shortages due to COVID-19.
Approximately 3,000 of the canceled flights were in or out of the United States, where the highly transmissible Omicron COVID variant is causing a surge in infections, according to flight-tracking website FlightAware.com
The website’s tally showed 14,269 flights were delayed on Boxing Day, 3,099 were called off and of those, 1,369 were in the US. [ Source: Sky News (Read More…) ]
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