New Year’s Eve mirrors Christmas Eve this year, and the times between, with world journey being disrupted – from cruises to flights, and every thing in between.
More than eight,000 flights have been cancelled since Christmas Eve within the US, alone. What was to have been the busiest interval for journey for US citizens for the rationale that begin of the pandemic, airline schedules have been slammed with both poor weather and rising Covid cases amongst pilots and cabin crews.
JetBlue introduced yesterday that they’re canceling more than 1,200 flights over the next 2 weeks to ensure they have sufficient crews available to get their fleets safely into the skies.
“…we anticipate the number of Covid circumstances in the northeast (US), the place most of our crews are based mostly, to proceed to surge for the subsequent week or 2.”
Some 10.5 million passengers had been estimated to queue up for flights from December 30 till January three. But airlines are urging passengers to re-check their flights before heading to airports.
Meanwhile, ThriftyTraveler.com, a popular website the place air travellers find low cost fares, has editorialised, telling US regulators to drive the airline industry to compensate passengers for delayed or cancelled flights.
The govt editor Kyle Potter posted the editorial calling for regulators to fantastic airways for cancellations, “…in an identical method the European Union does”.
“We’ve reached a breaking point on this country.”
Thought-provoking , while not widespread, is compounded by the very dynamic situation as nations change border rules on the run because of the fast-spreading Omicron variant. So Forbidden flying from their house country to another, could face different rules when they return.
In Thailand, the busy Christmas and New Year flight schedules haven’t but been affected.
For cruise fanatics, the US CDC is urging folks not to travel on cruise ships at this time due to a surge of Covid cases aboard the ships.
“Even absolutely vaccinated travelers could also be in danger for getting and spreading Covid-19 variants. The likelihood of getting Covid-19 in the shut quarters of a cruise ship are very high.”