New Year’s Eve mirrors Christmas Eve this year, and the days between, with world travel being disrupted – from cruises to flights, and everything in between.
More than 8,000 flights have been cancelled since Christmas Eve in the US, alone. What was to have been the busiest period for travel for US citizens since the start of the pandemic, airline schedules have been slammed with both poor weather and rising Covid cases among pilots and cabin crews.
JetBlue announced yesterday that they’re canceling more than 1,200 flights over the next 2 weeks to ensure they have enough crews available to get their fleets safely into the skies.
“…we expect the number of Covid cases in the northeast (US), where most of our crews are based, to continue to surge for the next week or 2.”
Some 10.5 million passengers were estimated to queue up for flights from December 30 until January 3….
