Almost 2,000 flights canceled on Sunday in the US

[left-of-center2012]

Source: The Hill

Nearly 2,000 flights were already canceled in the U.S. as of Sunday morning as airlines grapple with a spike in COVID-19 cases and inclement weather. A total of 1,956 flights within, into or out of the U.S. were canceled as of 8:30 a.m. ET on Sunday, according to FlightAware. Another 870 flights within, into or out of the U.S. had been delayed.

Southwest recorded 264 cancellations on Sunday, JetBlue reported 169 canceled flights and Delta followed with 161 cancellations. American Airlines canceled 136 flights on Sunday, and United called off 94 trips.
In the past 10 days airlines have canceled more than 14,000 flights in the U.S. according to a CNN tally of FlightAware statistics.

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) warned that more travel delays are likely in the coming days because of COVID-19 infections among FAA employees and “weather and heavy seasonal traffic.”

The CEO of Delta last month asked the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to shorten quarantine guidelines for COVID-19 breakthrough cases. Last week, the health agency recommended that individuals who test positive for COVID-19 and are asymptomatic should isolate for five days instead of 10.


Read more: https://thehill.com/policy/transportation/587897-almost-2000-flights-canceled-on-sunday-in-the-us

[Aussie105]

1. Oh No! Disaster! Panic big time!

How will people get by without plane flights?
(Same as before mass air transport was developed and became a 'must have, must do'.)

Same answer to . . . Oh no, running out of petrol/cell towers down/electricity supply disrupted!

But then I grew up in a time no one had cars, cell phones, or cheap air travel.

Guys with horse drawn carts came around for the daily milk, fresh vegetables . . . everything else involved riding to the nearest shop on a bicycle - job for the older/oldest male child in the family - with one shopping bag. With a note and the right money in your pocket.

Don't confuse 'convenient' with 'essential'.

[Dial H For Hero]

3. Do you really think electricity, telephones, and gasoline in 2022 America are just "conveniences"?

[Aussie105]

4. Yep.

Unless they interfere with your need for water, food, warmth and a roof over you head, of course.

- which I'm guessing, is what you are implying.

A lot of societies around the world focus on those essentials, and couldn't care less about air travel, mobile phones, or the internet.

[Dial H For Hero]

5. Without electricity and fossils fuels, I very quickly wouldn't have water, food, or warmth.

I also wouldn't have modern medicine, without which I would have perished from cancer a decade ago, and which currently keeps by Parkinson's Disease in check.

A bit more than a convenience....

[LiberatedUSA]

25. Indigenous tribes don't worry about it...

…but they don’t live very long and have lots of sickness we don’t worry about.

You can live without those things, but quality of life is better with technology. I could live with furs in a cave by a fire, but like Tom Hanks in Cast Away, that dental need is gonna have to be dealt with somehow.

Plus I really like toilet paper and showering.

[Clash City Rocker]

7. If they could generate power from smugness and condescension

You could solve the problem all by yourself.

I assume you still get everywhere by horse drawn cart, otherwise you’re a hypocrite.

[Aussie105]

8. I'm a hypocrite then.

I also plead guilty on the 'smugness and condescension' charges.

Just pointing out how reliant the USA, and other first world countries are on those things.
Without them, many societies would crumble. So appreciate them, protect them, don't take them for granted.

Life expectancy would be reduced for many, including me, for sure - down to the level of a third world country.

But take air travel out as a possibility for many, I don't see as a major problem. Shouldn't go on for too many years, anyway.

[Orrex]

10. You have a quaint understanding of the modern world

After you finish chopping tomorrow's wood, perhaps you can saddle your horse and ride on over to my house to discuss it.

[Aussie105]

12. Yo! Dude!

I'm in Australia, Summertime, 36 degrees Centigrade is a cool day this time of year!

Wood choppin' season isn't for quite a few months yet!

[Orrex]

13. Then you really don't know what you're talking about

[moriah]

19. Remember, women here are usually groped to even get on a plane.

I only travel by air for emergencies (or in the past, work), and as a result it's always been a last-minute ticket so the SSSS thing on it.

Getting felt up or scanned by a person in a booth who potentially is putting lotion to good use already discourages many from flying if they can avoid it. And even if you get scanned, your antiperspirant might make you still have to get felt up. (It's not so much the getting felt up, but feeling your male colleagues watching another female try to do her job which involves apparently feeling you up, that's the bad part.)

So yeah, while many may be scheduling for holidays, it sucks majorly when you can't be there when someone is dying. Or for businesses, when they can't get people/parts to warehouses with dead/dying equipment. There's a reason most warehouses that stock perishables have three computers that do the job of routing the trucks to and from it -- but only two mainframes. They do NOT want those trucks sitting there on the side of the road waiting with perishables inside them.

[left-of-center2012]

9. Seriously ?

“I grew up in a time no one had cars …
Guys with horse drawn carts came around for the daily milk, fresh vegetables …”


Google says:
"Cars became popular in the U.S. after the introduction of the Ford Model T in 1908"

[Orrex]

11. Have a little respect for the centenarian!

[Aussie105]

14. I grew up in a small rural town in outback South Australia.

No model Ts ever showed up there, not in 1908 or ever.

Google research:

1925 was the first year the 'T' was assembled in Australia, but never penetrated into rural areas.

Buick, Chevrolet and Vauxhall made into Australia after WW2. For rich, big city folk only.

[Magoo48]

26. I like it.

Silver lining—2000 less airliners pumping co2 and toxins into the atmosphere.

[Orrex]

6. Funny how flights are being cancelled but schools are somehow required to be open

Sounds like another case of "covid won't affect kids if we clap our hands and believe."

[NickB79]

16. Give it a week

Schools are coming off winter break tomorrow. It's just a matter of time before schools close just because the teachers, lunch ladies and bus drivers are out sick.

[Orrex]

17. You're right, of course, and that's the tragedy

Rather than making the responsible preemptive decision, schools are choosing to wait until the responsible choice is forced upon them, and people will suffer as a result.

[NickB79]

20. Effective tomorrow, my daughter's middle school is dropping mask mandates

It will be optional 🤬

In a semi-rural Trump-majority exurb of the Twin Cities, so that means less than half the kids will be either masked or vaccinated.

I'm going out tomorrow to stock up on cold meds and groceries. My wife and myself are fully vaxxed and boosted with Pfizer, daughter is double vaxxed with Pfizer, we all mask up outside and at work, but I expect she'll still bring it home given how transmissible it is. Ugh

[Orrex]

23. "Masks optional" means "we'll take your side if anyone gives you shit for not wearing a mask."

It's like the country as a whole is eagerly racing toward its doom and picks up speed every chance it gets.

[Aussie105]

18. Sounds about right.

Teachers don't get paid enough to go to work with all those healthy looking children who may, or may not, be breathing the virus in your direction.

I retired from teaching years ago. I used to regularly catch whatever bug was going around, including swine flu.
H1N1, if anyone remembers that one.
Got tested, positive, script for Tamiflu, go home, isolate for 2 weeks. Ring work, say sorry, go back to bed.

Since retirement I haven't caught anything nasty. I wonder why?

[MissB]

21. My kid rescheduled his flight

He’s staying here for a couple more weeks, hoping to ride out the omicron wave here with us.

He changed his flight yesterday- was supposed to leave tomorrow. They gave him a large credit.

[DFW]

22. We just flew Southwest this afternoon

Charleston,SC to Dallas. 1 hour late and not an empty seat in the whole plane. There were some SW flights that were canceled, but luckily not ours, and the advantage with Southwest is that it flies into Love Field, which is only 15 minutes from the house here.

[C Moon]

24. I don't know where my mind was, but I read that as "FIGHTS."

I thought it was some kind of boxing post because of COVID.