Flight cancellations are starting to slow down as airlines dig out from winter storms and adjust schedules to account for elevated worker absences due to surging Covid-19 cases
largely avoided cancellations over Christmas, but has struggled since the start of the year, canceling 14% of its flights from Jan. 1 through Jan. 9, according to FlightAware. The airline scrubbed over 200 flights on Monday, about 6% of its schedule.
“Southwest Airlines made flight adjustments across the network for Monday as the airline continues recovering from staffing challenges and severe winter weather that affected several of our largest bases of operations during last week and this weekend,” an airline spokesman said.Airlines scrapped more than 3,000 U.S. flights and delayed more than 5,000 in early January. The new wave of cancellations and delays comes as the surge in Covid-19 infections in the U.S.
The Omicron variant is the latest twist in a pandemic that has upended airlines’ ability to set plans more than a couple of months——or at times even a couple of weeks——in advance.
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