{"id":458535,"date":"2021-12-27T11:41:25","date_gmt":"2021-12-27T06:11:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=458535"},"modified":"2021-12-27T11:41:25","modified_gmt":"2021-12-27T06:11:25","slug":"omicron-crisis-3-major-airlines-cancel-flights-over-christmas-holiday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/omicron-crisis-3-major-airlines-cancel-flights-over-christmas-holiday\/","title":{"rendered":"Omicron crisis: 3 major airlines cancel flights over Christmas holiday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At least three major airlines have reported cancelling dozens of flights as illnesses largely tied to the omicron variant of Covid-19 take a toll on flight crew numbers during the busy holiday travel season.<\/p>\n<p>Germany-based Lufthansa said Friday that it was cancelling a dozen long-haul transatlantic flights over the Christmas holiday period because of a \u201cmassive rise\u201d in sick leave among pilots.<\/p>\n<p>The cancellations on flights to Houston, Boston and Washington come despite a \u201clarge buffer\u201d of additional staff for the period.<\/p>\n<p>The airline says it couldn&#8217;t speculate on whether Covid-19 infections or quarantines were responsible because it was not informed about the sort of illness. Passengers were booked on other flights.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least three major airlines have reported cancelling dozens of flights as illnesses largely tied to the omicron variant of Covid-19 take a toll on flight crew numbers during the busy holiday travel season. Germany-based Lufthansa said Friday that it was cancelling a dozen long-haul transatlantic flights over the Christmas holiday period because of a \u201cmassive rise\u201d in sick leave among pilots. The cancellations on flights to Houston, Boston and Washington come despite a \u201clarge buffer\u201d of additional staff for the period. The airline says it couldn&#8217;t speculate on whether Covid-19 infections or quarantines were responsible because it was not [&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-458535","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\/458535","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=458535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458535\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=458535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=458535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=458535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}