The holiday season travel stress has only escalated amid the rise of the omicron variant. Several airlines are reporting staff shortages from the spread of the coronavirus, leaving passengers with delayed or cancelled flights.

According to the flight tracker Flight Aware , 880 flights within, into or out of the United States were cancelled on Dec. 25. That’s among the approximately 2,521 flights that have been cancelled so far today worldwide.

Hundreds of the delayed and cancelled flights are coming from China Eastern and Air China, but U.S.-based airlines such as Delta, United and JetBlue are also seeing high cancellation numbers. […]

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By Donato