US airlines called off more than 1,000 flights on Sunday as crews were grounded amid surging Covid-19 infections, causing misery for thousands of Christmas travelers.
Commercial airlines had canceled 1,001 flights within, into or out of the US by mid-afternoon, according to the flight-tracking website FlightAware.com.
It was a third straight day of traveling pain and more cancellations were likely as Covid infections soar, driven by the highly transmissible Omicron variant.
A total of 997 flights were scrapped on Christmas Day and nearly 700 on Christmas Eve. Thousands more were delayed.
Enjoli Rodriguez, 25, whose Delta flight from Los Angeles to Lexington, Kentucky, was canceled on Christmas Eve due to staffing shortages, was one of the
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