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Over 4,500 flights were canceled worldwide on December 25 and thousands more were delayed due to the new variant of the coronavirus, Omicron.
According to the website, Flightaware.com, at least 2,000 flights were canceled on Christmas Day at US airports alone, and more than 1,500 were delayed.
The day before about 2,400 flights were canceled and 11,000 had been delayed. About 600 flights according to the website, Flightwave.com are scheduled to be canceled on December 26th.
Pilots and other airport workers had to be quarantined en masse due to exposure to the virus while companies such as Lufthansa, Delta, United Airlines and many others were forced to cancel flights during the busiest period of the year.
Data from Flightaware showed that United had to cancel about 200 flights on December 24 and 25, or 10 percent of scheduled flights.
Similarly, Delta canceled about 260 flights on Saturday and about 170 on Friday, adding that it “used up all its resources.”
Meanwhile, most of the canceled flights were suffered by Chinese companies, with 480 flights which belonged only to the company, China Eastern, while Air China canceled about 15 percent of the planned flights./REL
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