More than 1,000 flights have been canceled within, into, or out of the US as of Thursday, and JetBlue canceled 17% of its flights.
NEW YORK -- JetBlue Airways is reducing its schedule by about 1,280 flights from Thursday through Jan. 13 because a growing number of crew members are falling sick from COVID infections.
"We expect the number of COVID cases in the northeast -- where most of our crewmembers are based -- to continue to surge for the next week or two," a JetBlue spokesperson said in an emailed statement to Reuters."This means there is a high likelihood of additional cancellations until case counts start to come down.
More than 1,000 flights have been canceled within, into, or out of the US as of Thursday, according toEuropean airlines are also canceling a small number of flights amid record-breaking numbers of COVID-19 cases in several European nations. German airline Lufthansa said recently it, too, 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.Reuters contributed to this report.
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