Travel nightmare continues: Another 2,800 flights canceled Tuesday

Thousands of flights have been canceled over the past several days as Covid cases surge across the globe. On Tuesday, another 2,800 flights have been canceled, with more than 1,000 of them within, into or out of the United States, according to tracking website FlightAware. More than 8,000 flights have been delayed. Monday presented a similar nightmare for travelers, with more than 2,800 flights canceled, and 11,000 delays. Globally, airlines canceled more than 6,000 flights on Christmas Eve, Christmas and the day after Christmas. In the United States, more than 1,200 flights were canceled and more than 5,000 were delayed on Sunday alone as staff and crew call out sick. The cancellations come at the busiest time of year for air travel. The US TSA said it screened millions of people each day over the holiday weekend, peaking at 2.19m travelers on Thursday, December 23. On Wednesday, more people passed through TSA checkpoints than on the same day in 2019. Saturday, air travel was a bit slower because of the flight cancellations: More than 1.53 million people passed through security checkpoints Saturday. European airlines are also experiencing a small number of cancellations amid record-breaking numbers of Covid-19 cases in several European nations.<br/>