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Customer service0844 369 9899
Technical support0844 499 7300
HeadquartersFort Worth
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United States
Fleet size957 (mainline)
Hubs Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport
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About American Airlines


American Airlines, Inc. is a major United States airline headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas, within the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex. It is the world's largest airline when measured by fleet size, revenue, scheduled passengers carried, scheduled passenger-kilometers flown, and number of destinations served.

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Covid: US airlines scrap hundreds of flights amid Omicron surge

Apr 8,2022 11:55 pm

Airlines in the US are continuing to be hit hard by cancellations as a spike in Omicron variant cases causes global travel disruption over Christmas.

A quarter of the More Than 4,000 flights cancelled worldwide on Friday and Saturday were in the US, according to website Flightaware.

The issue came amid crews testing positive, or being forced to self-isolate to stem the spread.

The US, like countries around The World , has seen a sharp rise in cases.

, scientists are concerned by The Sheer number of infections.

" When we have millions and millions and millions of people, all sick, All Together at one time, it doesn't take a large percentage of Those People to topple over The Hospitals , " Dr Hallie Prescott, associate professor of Internal Medicine at the University of Michigan, told the New York Times.

In the UK - which Once Again saw record-breaking case numbers on Friday - to reduce the impact of Omicron.

Across Europe, governments are bringing in their own measures to combat the increase:

Italy, Spain and Greece have made face masks compulsory outdoors againCatalonia, in north-eastern Spain, has imposed an overnight curfewThe Netherlands entered a strict lockdown earlier this weekGermany has said it will restrict private gatherings to 10 people and close nightclubs from 28 December. Football matches will be played behind closed doorsPortugal has ordered bars and nightclubs to shut from 26 December, and made working from home obligatory until 9 January

But in South Africa - where the Omicron variant was first identified - the government has ended Covid contact tracing, except for serious cluster outbreaks or prisons.

The health department announced that as most of the population had now been exposed to the coronavirus, the policy is now shifting from a containment strategy to one of mitigation including self-monitoring, mask wearing and social distancing.

The US earlier announced it would lift travel restrictions imposed on South Africa and seven other African countries because of concerns about the Omicron variant

Travellers from South Africa , Botswana, Zimbabwe, Namibia, Lesotho, Eswatini, Mozambique and Malawi.

America's top Infectious Disease expert, Dr Anthony Fauci, warned earlier This Week that Christmas travel would increase the spread of the variant even among the fully vaccinated.

However, thousands found their plans thrown into disarray as flights across the country were cancelled.

At 03:30 GMT Saturday, 689 flights into or out of the US have been cancelled on Friday , reported, with More Than 700 are expected to be cancelled on Christmas Day itself.

The worst affected US companies are Delta, United Airlines and American Airlines .

United Airlines said rising numbers of Omicron cases had " had a direct impact on our flight crews and The People who run our operation" adding that it was contacting impacted passengers in advance of them coming to The Airport .

Overall, global airlines have cancelled more 4,000 flights scheduled to Take Off on Friday and Saturday.

In Australia, thousands of festive journeys were affected on Friday with More Than 100 domestic flights from Sydney and Melbourne to other cities cancelled.

A spokesperson for Jetstar, which accounted for many of the cancellations, said the airline had rebooked " the vast majority" of affected passengers " within a few hours of their original departure time so they can get to their destination In Time for Christmas".

More Than 5. 3 million people have died with coronavirus worldwide, according to America's Johns Hopkins University. There have been 279 million confirmed cases.

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To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Media caption, Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus: " An event cancelled is better than A Life cancelled"

Source of news: bbc.com

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