There's more travel trouble ahead.
According to Bastian, the biggest impact of Omicron on Delta has already passed."We believe the worst is behind us and we just need to navigate to get through this as a society," he told CNBC's. But the airline CEO said things are still going to be rocky in the upcoming weeks because of the fast-spreading variant. Bastian said airline bookings for Delta are likely not going to return to normal until around and after President's Day in mid-February.
"The next four to six weeks is going to be difficult," he said."January and the first half of February … are always the weakest parts of our travel calendar and with Omicron coming out at the same time, it's going to make it that much more weaker."As a result of so many employees having to call out sick with COVID this last month, Delta was forced to cancel a staggering number of flights. According tosince Christmas Eve.
"Over the course of the last week, those cancellations are way down … We've only seen about 1 percent cancellations over the last seven days due to Omicron. And in fact, yesterday, we only had two cancellations the entire day for the mainline out of 2,500 operations due to Omicron," Bastian said.
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