About 2,400 flights were canceled on Monday due to a sharp increase in the number of Covid-19 cases worldwide.
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According to FlightAware, of the more than 2,400 canceled flights, about 900 flew to the United States. More than 6,500 flights were delayed.
Worldwide, airlines have canceled more than 6,000 flights on Christmas Eve and the following day. In the United States, more than 1,200 flights were canceled and more than 5,000 were postponed on Sunday alone because staff and crews fell ill.
Cancellations take place during the busiest time of the year for air travel.
German airline Lufthansa has said it will cancel 10% of its winter flight schedule as the pandemic continues to hit the aviation industry.
In an interview with the Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung last week, Lufthansa CEO Carsten Spor said that due to the “sharp drop in bookings” the airline will have to cancel 33,000 flights from mid-January to February 2022, which is 10% of flights.
Source: Ukrgate
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