A lengthy line formed Sunday at a Denver International Airport customer service desk as flight delays and cancellations caused by COVID and winter weather continue to impact air travel.
And some 1,700 more U.S. flights and more than 3,000 more across the globe were scrapped as of 6 a.m. EST Monday, FlightAware said. The numbers were sure to rise as a"It was absolute mayhem," said Natasha Enos, who spent a sleepless Saturday night and Sunday morning at Denver International Airport during what was supposed to be a short layover on a cross-country trip from Washington to San Francisco.
Denver's airport also faced significant disruptions. Enos, who was flying on Frontier Airlines, didn't learn that her connecting flight home to California was canceled until she had already landed in Denver. Then it was a rush to find alternative flights and navigate through baggage claims packed with stranded and confused travelers, amid concerns about the spread of the highly transmissible Omicron variant of COVID-19.
And thousands of miles from the closest snow storms, Hawaiian Airlines said it had to cancel several flights between islands and across the Pacific due to staffing shortages.
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