Ninety-seven flights had been canceled at O’Hare International Airport by about 6 p.m. Monday, with another 42 scrubbed for Tuesday.
into Monday at Chicago’s airports, as weather and COVID-19 staffing shortages combined to cancel dozens of flights.
SkyWest said in a statement it was “working to recover” from weather that affected several of its hubs, and more crew members contracting COVID-19 or needing to quarantine. American and United both said some of their cancellations were also due to employees calling in sick with COVID-19. Pilots were picking up additional flying hours where possible, but flying time is capped by federal regulations, said James Belton, an airline pilot and a spokesman for the Air Line Pilots Association, the union representing United pilots.
At O’Hare on Monday afternoon, lines had formed at United and American’s customer service counters. While many travelers were there with questions and challenges unrelated to rebooking canceled flights, some were trying to rebook weather cancellations. The United staff had been helpful and she was hopeful she would get rebooked, she said. But in the middle of the holiday travel rush, with airline employees out sick with COVID-19, she wasn’t sure whether they would be successful, especially since the flight she had missed was on an affiliate of United’s, not the airline itself.
The Christmas weekend cancellations are not the worst set of cancellations American Airlines has had this year, Tajer said. The key, he said, will be how quickly the airline recovers from the cancellations.
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