U.S. Cancels Another 1,000 Flights Due to Snow Storms, Covid Surge
- Crew shortages that disrupted Christmas travel continue Monday
- Fauci: Vaccination rule for domestic travel should be weighed
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Flight cancellations that disrupted U.S. travel over the Christmas weekend stretched into Monday, with winter storms further pressuring carriers that were already short-staffed because of spreading Covid-19 cases.
About 1,160 U.S. flights were canceled Monday as of 4:20 p.m. New York time after more than 2,800 were dropped over the weekend, according to data from FlightAware.com. One of the hardest-hit carriers was Alaska Air Group Inc., whose operations at its main base at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport were affected by snowfall and some of the region’s coldest temperatures in years.