JetBlue Airways is cancelling over 1,280 flights beginning today through January in an attempt to get ahead of a surge in cases among pilots and flight attendants.
the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to cut the quarantine period for fully vaccinated people to five days from symptom onset due to the threat of Omicron on staffing.this week shortening its recommended isolation time.This past week has been one of our most difficult operating periods during the pandemic," three JetBlue department leaders wrote Tuesday in a note to staff, CNBC reports.
"The exponential growth in Omicron cases over just a couple of days is at a level that no one could reasonably prepare for." The flight cancellations are in an effort "to get even further ahead of the expected increase in Omicron cases," the leaders wrote.
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