Holiday Flights Canceled, Delayed Due To COVID-19 Issues And Weather

SACRAMENTO (CBS13)- The Sacramento International Airport is edging towards pre-pandemic question numbers during the vacation play with an expected 16,000 travelers done the airdrome mundane until January 3rd.

Those numbers enactment SMF astatine astir 85% of 2019 levels, according to a release from Sacramento County. They besides align with nationalist statistic that amusement question is back, astatine least, much than it was successful 2020.

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Triple A reports much than 109 cardinal radical — an astir 34% summation from 2020 — volition question 50 miles oregon much arsenic they deed the road, committee airplanes oregon instrumentality different proscription retired of municipality betwixt Dec. 23 and Jan. 2.

The time aft Christmas, travelers astatine SMF told CBS13 their vacation didn’t look the aforesaid arsenic it did successful 2020 due to the fact that galore of them didn’t person to walk it alone.

“Such a relief. It’s brainsick this past year, this twelvemonth arsenic well…but you know, acceptable everything speech I’m conscionable gladsome to beryllium with everybody close now,” said Christopher Tellez, flying backmost location aft spending the vacation with household successful Sacramento.

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Tellez is flying wrong California. He’s not acrophobic astir delays, oregon worse, a cancelation.

SMF is not seeing airport-wide cancelations owed to COVID-19 staffing shortages, but flights are inactive impacted by different airports and weather.

According to FlightAware.com, determination were 103 formation delays astatine SMF the Sunday aft Christmas, 59% of those flights were Delta Air Lines, the institution canceled much than 600 flights Friday and Saturday, owed to staffing shortages due to the fact that of the emergence of the Omicron COVID-19 variant, arsenic good arsenic weather, according to the Associated Press.

The aforesaid website, FlightAware.com, besides shows that the bulk of impacted destinations see Seattle, Houston, and Denver.

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Flight updates for Sacramento International Airport can beryllium recovered online.

Madisen Keavy