More than 1,000 domestic flights are already canceled for Saturday and Sunday.
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The hold time for customer service calls at Alaska are 20 hours and it says callers without urgent issues should wait"until next week." The airline thought earlier this week that the number of crewmember callouts due to the coronavirus was under control. It canceled only two flights on Christmas and one flight the next day, Sunday, because of COVID. But now it is seeing"a surge in the number of sick calls from pmicron"Budget leisure carrier Allegiant Air canceled nearly 100 flights, or 18% of its schedule, on Thursday, according to FlightAware. Allegiant warned customers telephone hold times were"unusually long.
Delta Air Lines canceled 3% of its Thursday schedule but warned that storms headed for Salt Lake City and Detroit hubs to complicate travel"in the coming days."The weather impacts aren't limited to snow and ice. The Federal Aviation Administration acknowledged the jet stream weather pattern over the US was"stronger than usual" on Tuesday, reaching 170 knots in the air above the Great Lakes.
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