Las Vegas airport sees more flight cancellations as CES arrives

More past 3,000 U.S. flights were canceled Monday astatine airports crossed the nation, including astatine Harry Reid International Airport successful Las Vegas.

Reid airdrome saw 74 flights into and retired of Las Vegas canceled Monday, according to formation tracking website FlightAware. The nixed flights travel arsenic the city’s largest yearly convention, CES, is slated to statesman Wednesday. The amusement usually attracts upwards of 130,000 people, but a reduced turnout is expected this week amid the COVID-19 omicron variant outbreak.

Some attendees were already arriving Monday, picking up their badges and COVID-19 trial kits astatine Reid international.

Nationally, a wintertime tempest that deed the mid-Atlantic connected Monday combined with pandemic-caused shortages of hose workers resulted successful 3,046 flights within, into oregon retired of the state canceled, FlightAware information listed.

Of the 10 airlines astatine Reid with canceled flights Monday, Las Vegas’ busiest carrier, Southwest Airlines, had the astir with 22.

A Southwest spokesperson said the canceled flights successful Las Vegas were portion of much than 600 flights nixed retired of much than 3,600 flights scheduled crossed the airline’s web arsenic a effect of the wintertime tempest moving crossed the country.

Hometown bearer Allegiant Air saw 14 canceled flights astatine Reid, Alaska Airlines had 8 canceled flights and Frontier Airlines had seven, according to FlightAware.

Monday’s cancellations travel connected the heels of 82 flights nixed astatine Reid connected Sunday, according to FlightAware. Since Dec. 26, much than 500 flights person been canceled astatine the airport.

The toll of grounded flights successful the U.S. was successful the fewer hundreds per time the week earlier Christmas, past soared past 1,000 a day. Airlines blamed unit shortages connected the spreading virus, including the highly transmissible omicron variant.

Airlines and passengers lucked retired for respective days with mostly favorable weather, but that changed erstwhile a wintertime tempest deed the Midwest connected Saturday and caused cancellations to spike again to caller holiday-season highs.

Over the weekend, astir 5,400 U.S. flights were canceled — astir 12 percent of each scheduled flights — and much than 9,000 worldwide, according to FlightAware. By Monday afternoon, astir 18,000 U.S. flights had been canceled since Christmas Eve.

Travelers could instrumentality anticipation from an improving upwind forecast: Airlines had canceled less than 400 U.S. flights scheduled for Tuesday.

Contact Mick Akers astatine makers@reviewjournal.com oregon 702-387-2920. Follow @mickakers connected Twitter.