In the last few days alone, up to six thousand flights have been canceled.
Over the past few days, from December 24, up to six thousand flights were canceled worldwide . Only on Sunday, December 26, according to the Flightaware resource, 1.5 thousand flights were canceled.
All – due to the closure of the borders of individual countries and increased quarantine requirements for passengers due to the COVID-19 pandemic in particular due to the rapid spread of the new Omicron strain . At the same time, many pilots and crew members have contracted the coronavirus or have been in contact with sick people . Therefore, we went to self-isolation, but they did not find a replacement. This is reported by the Italian TV channel TGcom24.
Massive cancellation of flights is expected on Monday, December 27.
Meanwhile, the German airline Lufthansa complains about a significant reduction in passenger traffic from – for a pandemic. So in winter, plans to cut up to 10% of its flights – 33 thousand . Deutsche Welle writes about it. Lufthansa CEO Carsten Spohr said the number of bookings between mid-January and February has dropped sharply.
“We are short of passengers in our domestic markets in Germany, Switzerland, Austria and Belgium because these countries are larger all suffered from the wave of the pandemic, “Spohr told the Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung.
The head of the airline clarified that Lufthansa operated only 60% of flights compared to the pre-pandemic year, with” about half “of the passengers.
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