WASHINGTON, December 25 (Reuters) – U.S. airlines canceled hundreds of flights on Saturday as scores of pilots and crew were affected by the novel Omicron variant of the coronavirus.
A total of 937 flights were canceled on Christmas Day, after 690 the day before, according to the count by the flight tracking site FlightAware.com.
Almost 1,500 flights were also delayed. (Report Humeyra Pamuk and Joel Schectman, French version Jean-Michel Blot)