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For over a week during the busiest time of the year airlines have been forced to change or scrap flights due to a mix of bad weather and coronavirus-related staffing shortages.

Wintry weather combined with the pandemic to frustrate air travelers whose return flights home from the holidays were canceled or delayed in the first days of the new year.

Federal officials are urging the chief executives of AT&T and Verizon Communications to delay plans to introduce their new 5G wireless services next week due to safety concerns with aircraft operations.

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is warning that travelers may face delays in the coming days due to an increased number of employees testing positive for COVID-19 -- at a time when Americans have been dogged by flight cancellations due to the ongoing pandemic.

Flight cancellations will continue into the new year as JetBlue Airways announced it is cutting more than 1,000 flights amid a surge in the number of sick calls from its staff due to the coronavirus' omicron variant.

The spread of the coronavirus' omicron variant continues to hammer the airline industry with a slew of new flight delays and cancellations on Wednesday.

Ethiopian Airlines announced Monday that it will resume Boeing 737 Max flights in February, nearly three years after a crash left 157 people dead.

Christmas Eve travel is back in the United States, although fewer passengers passed through TSA checkpoints Friday than on Christmas Eve 2019.

The agreement follows a letter from Boeing and Airbus which expressed concern that 5G C-band transmissions could interfere with radio altimeters, a critical instrument used by pilots to measure altitude in low visibility environments

More than 109 million Americans are expected to travel this holiday season according to AAA.

Delta Air Lines sent a letter to CDC director Dr. Rochelle Walensky this week requesting that the quarantine period for fully vaccinated individuals be cut in half, calling the current guidelines outdated.

Travel experts are saying Wednesday and Thursday are going to be the busiest days for holiday travelers. Shake Shack seems to be aware of this fact and has plans to offer free fries to airline passengers who have had their flights delayed or canceled.

Boeing has completed the sale of its Commercial Airplanes headquarters campus in a suburb of Seattle.

The Forbidding Airlines from Imposing Ridiculous Fees or FAIR Fees Act aims to limit fees placed on services such as checked bags, seat selection and ticket changes.

The FAA order pertains to a type of 5G slated to go live Jan. 5. It would restrict pilots from operating automatic landing and other cockpit systems commonly used in poor weather, to avoid possible interference from 5G in the spectrum range known as the C-band.

American Airlines is planning to trim international flights next summer because of Boeing’s delays in delivering new 787 Dreamliners, according to people familiar with the matter and a draft internal airline memo.

Southwest Airlines is extending its bookable flight schedule to summer 2022 just in time for the holiday season.

China’s aviation regulator cleared the Boeing 737 Max on Thursday to return to flying with technical upgrades more than two years after the plane was grounded worldwide following two fatal crashes.

The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) screened more than 2.4 million people at security checkpoints across the nation Sunday, marking a new pandemic high.

Amid the holiday season, the agency is urging anyone who is setting up laser-light displays to make sure their creations are aimed toward their home and not at the sky, in order to protect pilots who have reported being distracted and even temporarily blinded from such incidents every year, the FAA said.