Sporadic flight cancellations, delays continue at Las Vegas airport

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Sporadic formation delays and cancellations continued astatine Harry Reid International Airport connected Friday arsenic airlines continued to woody with inclement upwind and the dispersed of the omicron variant crossed the nation.

The airport’s website showed that problems for travelers astatine the Las Vegas airdrome chiefly progressive canceled arriving flights, with astatine slightest 7 arriving flights astatine Reid scratched. Several others were delayed.

Flight departures were mostly connected time, with 3 departing formation canceled arsenic of mid-morning, according to the airline’s website.

The problems were much pronounced astatine different airports astir the country. By midday Friday connected the East Coast, airlines had scrubbed much than 1,300 U.S. flights and 2,700 worldwide, according to tracking work FlightAware. That compared with astir 1,400 U.S. cancellations for each of Thursday.

That pushed the full U.S. cancellations since Christmas Eve supra 9,000.

The online website Flightview indicates that astir of the large airlines, from Spirit to United to Delta, were listing immoderate delays oregon cancellations. Las Vegas-based Allegiant besides reported a fistful of flights canceled.

Cancellations began to spike the time earlier Christmas and person continued passim this week. From Sunday to Thursday, much than 240 flights into oregon retired of Reid airdrome were canceled.

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

Contact Glenn Puit by email astatine g[puit@reviewjournal.com. Follow @GlennatRJ connected Twitter.

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