{"id":461428,"date":"2022-01-12T09:08:16","date_gmt":"2022-01-12T03:38:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=461428"},"modified":"2022-01-12T09:37:47","modified_gmt":"2022-01-12T04:07:47","slug":"united-airlines-ceo-says-3000-of-its-workers-have-contracted-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/united-airlines-ceo-says-3000-of-its-workers-have-contracted-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"United Airlines CEO says 3,000 of its workers have contracted Covid-19"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>United Airlines Holdings Inc. is reducing its near-term flight schedule as the airline grapples with the staffing impact of the rapidly spreading omicron variant of the coronavirus.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn one day alone at Newark, nearly one-third of our workforce called out sick,\u201d United Chief Executive Officer Scott Kirby wrote Tuesday in a memo to workers. \u201cTo those who are out sick or isolating, we wish you a speedy recovery.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>About 3,000 of its workers are currently positive for Covid-19, the CEO said. United is among multiple U.S. carriers whacked by a recent surge in omicron infections nationwide, which resulted in tens of thousands of flight cancellations across the industry during the holiday travel period.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>United Airlines Holdings Inc. is reducing its near-term flight schedule as the airline grapples with the staffing impact of the rapidly spreading omicron variant of the coronavirus. \u201cIn one day alone at Newark, nearly one-third of our workforce called out sick,\u201d United Chief Executive Officer Scott Kirby wrote Tuesday in a memo to workers. \u201cTo those who are out sick or isolating, we wish you a speedy recovery.\u201d About 3,000 of its workers are currently positive for Covid-19, the CEO said. United is among multiple U.S. carriers whacked by a recent surge in omicron infections nationwide, which resulted in tens [&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-461428","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\/461428","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=461428"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461428\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=461428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=461428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=461428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}