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USA-1,000 canceled flights due to Omicron variant

WASHINGTON, December 26 (Reuters) – US airlines on Sunday canceled a thousand flights for the third day in a row as scores of pilots and crew were affected by the new Omicron variant of COVID-19 .

The airlines canceled 1,001 domestic and international flights on Sunday, a figure slightly higher than Christmas Day (997) and New Year’s (nearly 700) cancellations, according to data from the flight tracking site FlightAware.com. (Humeyra Pamuk report, French version Jean-Michel Blot and Sophie Louet)

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