US reports massive flight delays, cancellations due to Covid, snow

Robert Besser
11 Jan 2022, 04:01 GMT+10

Severe weather and the increase in COVID-19 cases caused more than 8,600 flights to be delayed, and nearly 5,000 flights were cancelled, as of 3 pm eastern time on January 7.
Weather conditions disrupted air traffic, with snow covering part of the southern and eastern United States.
Some 662 flights were cancelled in New York and Boston on January 7 due to winter weather, according to FlightAware.

DENVER, Colorado: Severe weather and the increase in COVID-19 cases caused more than 8,600 flights to be delayed, and nearly 5,000 flights were cancelled, as of 3 pm eastern time on January 7.

Weather conditions disrupted air traffic, with snow covering part of the southern and eastern United States.

Some 662 flights were cancelled in New York and Boston on January 7 due to winter weather, according to FlightAware.

Another factor causing cancellations was continuing airlines staffing shortages due to the spread of the Omicron variant of COVID-19, according to media reports.

This follows the cancellation of more than 3,200 flights on January 3.

Watch latest videos

News RELEASES

Publish news of your business, community or sports group, personnel appointments, major event and more by submitting a news release to Colorado Star.

More Information

59 ℉

Fair in Broomfield

International Business

Section

REE Automotive to build commercial EV chassis plant in UK

LONDON, England: Israeli startup REE Automotive has announced that it will build an assembly plant for electric vehicles (EVs) in ...

High import taxes prevent Tesla from selling cars in India

NEW DELHI, India: Tesla made known this week that it will not sell electric automobiles in India due to the ...

US pressured by airlines to lift Covid testing requirements

WASHINGTON D.C.: The U.S. airline industry is pressuring the Biden administration to lift a 16-month-old regulation requiring a negative COVID-19 ...

UAE company spends $4.4 billion on investing in UK-headquartered Vodafone

DUBAI, UAE: After stating that it was looking to expand into new markets and related sectors, such as financial technology, ...

Sensex tumbles 1,416 points amid global market meltdown; investors lose Rs 7 lakh cr

Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], May 19 (ANI): The Indian stock markets' key indices, Sensex and Nifty, tumbled by more than 2.5 ...

Xebia announces the winners of its Blog-a-thon initiative in collaboration with Microsoft

Gurugram (Haryana) [India], May 19 (ANI/Mediawire): Xebia, the US-headquartered IT consultancy today announced the winnersof its unique Blog-a-thon contest in ...

US

Section