{"id":458316,"date":"2021-12-24T11:33:59","date_gmt":"2021-12-24T06:03:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=458316"},"modified":"2021-12-24T11:33:59","modified_gmt":"2021-12-24T06:03:59","slug":"united-cancels-over-100-flights-on-christmas-eve-due-to-omicron-linked-shortages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/united-cancels-over-100-flights-on-christmas-eve-due-to-omicron-linked-shortages\/","title":{"rendered":"United Cancels Over 100 Flights on Christmas Eve Due to Omicron-Linked Shortages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>United Airlines Holdings Inc. is cancelling over 100 flights on Friday, the day before Christmas, while Delta Air Lines Inc. has cut about 90. <\/p>\n<p>United said in an email Thursday that a jump in omicron Covid-19 cases is affecting the availability of flight crews and ground personnel. Delta said its cancellations were due to a combination of reasons, including but not limited to potential inclement weather in some places and the impact of omicron. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cDelta teams have exhausted all options and resources &#8212; including rerouting and substitutions of aircraft and crews to cover scheduled flying before cancelling around 90 flights for Friday,\u201d Delta said in an emailed statement Friday. The airline is still operating nearly 3,100 flights Friday. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>United Airlines Holdings Inc. is cancelling over 100 flights on Friday, the day before Christmas, while Delta Air Lines Inc. has cut about 90. United said in an email Thursday that a jump in omicron Covid-19 cases is affecting the availability of flight crews and ground personnel. Delta said its cancellations were due to a combination of reasons, including but not limited to potential inclement weather in some places and the impact of omicron. \u201cDelta teams have exhausted all options and resources &#8212; including rerouting and substitutions of aircraft and crews to cover scheduled flying before cancelling around 90 flights [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[184,141,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-458316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-hindustantimes","category-hindustantimes","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=458316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458316\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=458316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=458316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=458316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}