{"id":1157429,"date":"2021-12-26T12:34:36","date_gmt":"2021-12-26T17:34:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1157429"},"modified":"2021-12-26T12:34:39","modified_gmt":"2021-12-26T17:34:39","slug":"christmas-flightmare-thousands-of-travelers-stranded-for-holidays-after-omicron-forces-delays-cancellations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/christmas-flightmare-thousands-of-travelers-stranded-for-holidays-after-omicron-forces-delays-cancellations\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Christmas Flightmare\u2019: Thousands Of Travelers Stranded For Holidays After Omicron Forces Delays, Cancellations"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fchristmas-flightmare-thousands-of-travelers-stranded-for-holidays-after-omicron-forces-delays-cancellations%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1157429&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Thousands of Christmas-weekend flights were canceled \u2014 and thousands more delayed \u2014 leaving travelers stranded as they tried to visit family and friends over the holidays.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-10344997\/FLIGHTMARE-continues-nearly-500-flights-cancelled-1-300-delayed-Sunday.html\">The Daily Mail<\/a> dubbed the situation a \u201cChristmas Flightmare,\u201d noting that nearly 1000 flights either entering or leaving the United States were canceled on Christmas Day alone, and some 3000 additional flights were delayed that day as well.<\/p>\n<p>Many of the <a href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/american-airlines-cancels-hundreds-of-summer-flights-partly-due-to-staffing-shortages\/\">cancellations and delays<\/a> were blamed on the rapid spread of the <a href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/omicron-fears-spook-consumers-slow-economic-recovery\/\">Omicron variant<\/a> of COVID-19, which is quickly becoming the dominant variant in many countries around the globe.<\/p>\n<p>CNN transportation reporter Pete Muntean had the story going into the holiday weekend, tweeting, \u201cDEVELOPING: United Airlines is canceling more than 100 Christmas Eve flights citing the Omicron variant\u2019s impact on flight crews and workers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">DEVELOPING: United Airlines is canceling more than 100 Christmas Eve flights citing the Omicron variant\u2019s impact on flight crews and workers.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Pete Muntean (@petemuntean) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/petemuntean\/status\/1474165376514764806?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 23, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cUPDATE: Now Delta Air Lines is canceling 90+ flights tomorrow due to a \u2018combination of issues\u2019 including the impact of the Omicron variant. \u2018Delta teams have exhausted all options and resources,&#8217;\u201d he added in a follow-up <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/petemuntean\/status\/1474192146966237189\">tweet<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMore than 1500 domestic flights have been cancelled since Friday,\u201d @marketrebels noted as well.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">More than 1500 domestic flights have been cancelled since Friday<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Market Rebellion (@MarketRebels) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MarketRebels\/status\/1475137473994969089?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 26, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/thousands-flights-scrapped-globally-omicron-mars-christmas-weekend-2021-12-24\/\">Reuters reported<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p class=\"Text__text___3eVx1j Text__dark-grey___AS2I_p Text__regular___Bh17t- Text__large___1i0u1F Body__base___25kqPt Body__large_body___3g04wK ArticleBody__element___3UrnEs\" data-testid=\"paragraph-0\"><em>Commercial airlines around the world canceled more than 4,500 flights over the Christmas weekend, as a mounting wave of COVID-19 infections driven by the Omicron variant created greater uncertainty and misery for holiday travelers.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"Text__text___3eVx1j Text__dark-grey___AS2I_p Text__regular___Bh17t- Text__large___1i0u1F Body__base___25kqPt Body__large_body___3g04wK ArticleBody__element___3UrnEs\" data-testid=\"paragraph-1\"><em>Airline carriers globally scrapped at least 2,401 flights on Friday, which fell on Christmas Eve and is typically a heavy day for air travel, according to a running tally on the flight-tracking website FlightAware.com. Nearly 10,000 more flights were delayed.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"Text__text___3eVx1j Text__dark-grey___AS2I_p Text__regular___Bh17t- Text__large___1i0u1F Body__base___25kqPt Body__large_body___3g04wK ArticleBody__element___3UrnEs\" data-testid=\"paragraph-2\"><em>The website showed that 1,779 Christmas Day flights were called off worldwide, along with 402 more that had been scheduled for Sunday.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Initial predictions suggested that 2021 holiday air travel would surpass prepandemic levels from 2019, but mass cancellations took their toll and drove the final totals down considerably.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJUST IN: Air travel is HIGHER than pre-pandemic levels. TSA says it screened more people at airports yesterday than on the same day in 2019. 2.08 million vs 1.94 million,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/petemuntean\/status\/1474009000408756224\">Muntean<\/a>&nbsp;tweeted Thursday before the cancellations began.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile the number of people flying out of US airports this year has matched, and at one point exceeded, 2019 levels, Christmas Eve air travel fell sharply below pre-pandemic levels,\u201d CNN reported.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">While the number of people flying out of US airports this year has matched, and at one point exceeded, 2019 levels, Christmas Eve air travel fell sharply below pre-pandemic levels. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/QiAmJuAKJO\">https:\/\/t.co\/QiAmJuAKJO<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 CNN (@CNN) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CNN\/status\/1474828565707382789?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 25, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<p>From CNN\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/world\/live-news\/omicron-variant-coronavirus-news-12-26-21\/h_873445a179acb621baf80a9557c3cca5\">full report<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-gZMcBi render-stellar-contentstyles__Paragraph-sc-9v7nwy-2 dCwndB\"><em>Saturday air travel failed to meet pre-pandemic levels with more than 1.53 million people passing through Transportation Security Administration (TSA) checkpoints, versus nearly 2.47 million people passing through US airports in 2019 amid last-minute flight cancellations due to the Omicron surge.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u2018JUST IN: @TSA officers screened 1,533,398 people at airport security checkpoints nationwide yesterday, Christmas day,\u2019 TSA spokesperson Lisa Farbstein&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TSA_Northeast\/status\/1475093640854843398\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">tweeted<\/a>&nbsp;Sunday.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-gZMcBi render-stellar-contentstyles__Paragraph-sc-9v7nwy-2 dCwndB\"><em>That number is higher than the 1,128,773 people the agency says it screened on Saturday of Christmas week of last year, but it is more than 900,000 fewer than the 2,470,786 people TSA screened on the same day in 2019, before the coronavirus pandemic.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Sunday travel was no less complicated, as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-10344997\/FLIGHTMARE-continues-nearly-500-flights-cancelled-1-300-delayed-Sunday.html\">The Daily Mail<\/a> reported:<\/p>\n<p><em>Although Christmas might be over, holiday travelers won\u2019t be able to escape the airport chaos on Sunday&nbsp;as 682 US flights have been canceled and 1,075 more are delayed due to staffing shortages caused by the COVID Omicron surge.&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\">member<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thousands of Christmas-weekend flights were canceled \u2014 and thousands more delayed \u2014 leaving travelers stranded as they tried to visit family and friends over the holidays. The Daily Mail dubbed the situation a \u201cChristmas Flightmare,\u201d noting that nearly 1000 flights either entering or leaving the United States were canceled on Christmas Day alone, and some &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":93,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1157429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1157429","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/93"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1157429"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1157429\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1157429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1157429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1157429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}