Omicron’s Rapid Spread Shreds Budding Recovery in Air Travel

  • Airlines cancel 2.9% of flights worldwide through Feb. 1
  • Rapid border curbs ‘don’t bode well’ for next variant to come
A Covid-19 testing centre at London’s Heathrow Airport on Nov. 29.Photographer: Jason Alden/Bloomberg
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Rapid and still-evolving border restrictions in response to the omicron variant have submerged air-travel demand yet again, throwing a long-awaited recovery into uncertainty.