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Covid-19: Air travel sees turbulent start to 2022 over Omicron worries

New York shatters the record for daily Covid numbers with over 85,000 cases

Covid, New York, Omicron
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People queue up for a Covid test at a popup testing site as the Omicron variant continues to spread across New York City

Bloomberg
More than 3,000 flights were cancelled around the world on Sunday, more than half of them U.S. flights, adding to the toll of holiday week travel disruptions due to adverse weather and the surge in coronavirus cases caused by the Omicron variant.

Over 3,300 flights had been cancelled by noon GMT on Sunday, including over 1,900 entering, departing from or within the United States, according to a running tally on the tracking website FlightAware.com. Including those delayed but not cancelled, more than 4,800 flights were delayed in total.

The Christmas and New Year holidays are typically a peak time for air travel,

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