Flights canceled, delayed at Las Vegas airport on New Year’s Day

Dozens of flights were either delayed oregon canceled connected New Year’s Day astatine Harry Reid International Airport arsenic the federation continues to grapple with an aviation manufacture slowdown.

The formation tracking website Flightview listed astatine slightest 24 home flights astatine Harry Reid that were canceled Saturday. The fig encompassed some arriving and departing flights. At slightest 13 different home flights were delayed. There were astatine slightest 16 planetary arriving and departing flights that were canceled and different 16 that were delayed.

The Associated Press reports that thousands of flights person been canceled crossed the federation since Christmas. Blame has been assigned to the dispersed of the omicron variant of COVID-19, which knocked retired formation crews astatine airlines that had already reduced the size of their workforces pursuing the illness of aerial question successful 2020. The question of omicron infections arrived astatine the aforesaid clip that crowds began to battalion airports for vacation travel. Then the Pacific Northwest and different areas were slammed with acold and dense snows.

“Be prepared, cheque with your hose for formation presumption updates and get present early,” airdrome spokeswoman Stacey Kepler said connected Friday.

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