{"id":458414,"date":"2021-12-27T08:57:41","date_gmt":"2021-12-27T03:27:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=458414"},"modified":"2021-12-27T09:50:39","modified_gmt":"2021-12-27T04:20:39","slug":"omicron-surge-united-and-delta-cancel-hundreds-of-christmas-flights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/omicron-surge-united-and-delta-cancel-hundreds-of-christmas-flights\/","title":{"rendered":"Omicron surge: United and Delta cancel hundreds of Christmas flights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Air carriers scrapped more than 400 US flights Friday, led by United Airlines and Delta Air Lines, as surging Covid infections and the prospects of bad weather disrupted Christmas Eve travel. In Germany, Lufthansa also cancelled several flights.<\/p>\n<p>The global tally exceeded 2,000 trips, according to data tracker FlightAware.com. China Eastern and Air China ranked one-two, FlightAware reported as of 8:30 am New York Time, with Chinese airports affected most heavily. <\/p>\n<p>United Airlines Holdings set the cancellations in motion late Thursday, and its count swelled overnight into Friday morning, with 169 flights \u2013 9 per cent of the day\u2019s schedule \u2013 erased. FlightAware said Delta Air Lines cut 127 flights, or 6 per cent of Friday\u2019s flying.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Air carriers scrapped more than 400 US flights Friday, led by United Airlines and Delta Air Lines, as surging Covid infections and the prospects of bad weather disrupted Christmas Eve travel. In Germany, Lufthansa also cancelled several flights. The global tally exceeded 2,000 trips, according to data tracker FlightAware.com. China Eastern and Air China ranked one-two, FlightAware reported as of 8:30 am New York Time, with Chinese airports affected most heavily. United Airlines Holdings set the cancellations in motion late Thursday, and its count swelled overnight into Friday morning, with 169 flights \u2013 9 per cent of the day\u2019s schedule [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,167,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-458414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-civil-aviation-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458414","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\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=458414"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458414\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=458414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=458414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=458414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}