{"id":105934,"date":"2022-01-03T04:50:43","date_gmt":"2022-01-03T12:50:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/?p=105934"},"modified":"2022-01-03T08:11:26","modified_gmt":"2022-01-03T16:11:26","slug":"over-60-flights-canceled-at-lax-thousands-more-worldwide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/2022\/01\/03\/over-60-flights-canceled-at-lax-thousands-more-worldwide\/","title":{"rendered":"Over 60 flights canceled at LAX, thousands more worldwide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/LAX.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-86778 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/LAX.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"275\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/LAX.jpg 480w, https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/LAX-300x172.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Another wave of flight cancellations hit Los Angeles International Airport on Monday, with 63 flights canceled due to COVID-19 and weather issues as of 6:30 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>LAX experienced 208 cancellations on New Year&#8217;s Day.<\/p>\n<p>Orange County&#8217;s John Wayne Airport reported 21 canceled flights Monday morning, while Long Beach Airport had seven cancellations and 11 flights at Hollywood\/Burbank Airport were canceled.\u00a0On Sunday, Jan. 2, there were 10 canceled flights at John Wayne Airport, with nine at Long Beach Airport and seven at Hollywood\/Burbank Airport.<\/p>\n<p>The problems are a continuation from last week, when thousand of flights were canceled worldwide on a daily basis.\u00a0There were 3,382 canceled flights worldwide and 1,936 canceled flights within, into or out of the United States listed Monday morning on the tracking site FlightAware.com.<\/p>\n<p>On Sunday, FlightAware.com listed 4,197 canceled flights around the world, 2,518 of which involved flights into or out of the United States.\u00a0The scrapped flights are largely blamed on airline staffing shortages caused by the latest surge in COVID-19 cases fueled by the Omicron variant. Weather issues were also causing some of the cancellations.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;From about 8 p.m. to midnight LAX could see 15,000 passengers per hour, making it a very busy time of the day as people head home from the winter holidays,&#8221; the airport tweeted at 2:15 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 2. &#8220;Please plan to arrive early, and check traffic @FlyLAXstats for upper\/lower level drive times.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another wave of flight cancellations hit Los Angeles International Airport on Monday, with 63 flights canceled due to COVID-19 and weather issues as of 6:30 a.m. LAX experienced 208 cancellations on New Year&#8217;s Day. Orange County&#8217;s John Wayne Airport reported 21 canceled flights Monday morning, while Long Beach Airport had seven cancellations and 11 flights [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":70,"featured_media":86778,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16,1499,1496],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105934"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/70"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105934"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105934\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":105935,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105934\/revisions\/105935"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}