Airlines Cancel Hundreds of Flights Over Omicron

“United Airlines preemptively canceled more than a hundred flights scheduled for Friday… The airline’s statement acknowledged that the ‘nationwide spike in Omicron cases’ had directly impacted its flight crews and forced 112 cancellations,” the Daily Beast reports.

“Roughly an hour later, it emerged that Delta Airlines had pulled the plug on roughly 85 of its own Friday flights.”

CNBC: “Airlines have ramped up pressure on the CDC to lower the quarantine recommendation for breakthrough Covid cases.”