Another 2,500 flights canceled Monday as travel disruption continues amid Omicron surge
CNNNew York CNN Business — More than 2,800 flights have been canceled Monday as Covid cases surge across the globe. “Delta people are working hard to get them to where they need to be as quickly and as safely as possible on the next available flight.” International flights European airlines are also experiencing a small number of cancellations amid record-breaking numbers of Covid-19 cases in several European nations. A British Airways spokesperson told CNN on Monday that the airline had canceled “a number of flights due to operational constraints,” and are instead using larger aircrafts, where possible, to get customers to their destinations. A Virgin Atlantic spokesperson told CNN: “We continue to take pre-emptive measures to uphold operational and staffing resilience, always putting the health and safety of our customers and people first.” German airline Lufthansa said it will cancel 10% of its winter flight schedule as the pandemic continues to hit the aviation industry. In an interview with Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung last week, Lufthansa CEO Carsten Spohr said that due to “a sharp drop in bookings” the airline will have to cancel 33,000 flights from mid-January to February 2022 or 10% of the group’s winter flight schedule.