LOS ANGELES — Another wave of flight cancellations hit Southern California airports Monday, with 63 flights canceled at LAX — and dozens at other airports — due to COVID-19 and weather issues as of 6:30 a.m.
Orange County’s John Wayne Airport reported 21 canceled flights this morning. Long Beach Airport had seven cancellations and 11 flights at Hollywood/Burbank Airport were canceled.
LAX experienced 208 cancellations on New Year’s Day.
On Sunday, there were 10 canceled flights at John Wayne Airport, with nine at Long Beach Airport and seven at Hollywood/Burbank Airport.
The problems are a continuation from last week, when thousand of flights were canceled worldwide on a daily basis.
There were 3,382 canceled flights worldwide and 1,936 canceled flights within, into or out of the United States listed Monday morning on the tracking site FlightAware.com.
On Sunday, FlightAware.com listed 4,197 canceled flights around the world, 2,518 of which involved flights into or out of the United States.
The scrapped flights are largely blamed on airline staffing shortages caused by the latest surge in COVID-19 cases fueled by the Omicron variant. Weather issues were also causing some of the cancellations.
“From about 8 p.m. to midnight LAX could see 15,000 passengers per hour, making it a very busy time of the day as people head home from the winter holidays,” the airport tweeted at 2:15 p.m. Sunday. “Please plan to arrive early, and check traffic @FlyLAXstats for upper/lower level drive times.”
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Guess which stats most likely will not be reported……how many were infected by someone an airplane trip away
It is amazing that the airline company need to make money to stay in business and our governing leader interest in tax dollars clouds the perspective that people flying around the state(s), or around the world is what causes the spread of the virus which has killed so many..
Sadly going to the family function, or holiday get away with friends may be the very adventure that makes this event the last one those gathered will ever have….
Many who have been vaccinated have no visible symptoms but are able to unknowingly pass the virus to others even those who have been vaccinated. Will that slot machine pay out seem so sweet it one of the party group dies?
We all understand living in small circles of interaction is frustrating but keep in mind the life you risk by traveling may or may not be the person you love but the person you impact surely has a family that will miss them if covid takes their life
Wouldn’t it be better to use the video app on your phone and postpone gathering until covid risk is no longer everywhere….
Yep it was hard but the rant of the foolishness of bringing 70,000 people into our midst (recognizing they do not quite honestly give a rat’s tail how many of us get sick or die) so they can watch someone catch and carry or kick a bag of air across or over a horizontal line of chalk seems a topic very related but for another day.