A United Airlines plane lands at the San Francisco International Airport in Burlingame, California.
The rapid spread of the omicron variant of Covid-19 has led to a staffing shortage at United Airlines.
A combination of bad weather and a surge in sick calls from crews that tested positive for Covid has led to the cancellation of more than 10,000 flights.
The busiest days since the start of the Pandemic have been disrupted.
Nearly 1,500 flights were canceled on Friday. United canceled more than 200.
The senior vice president of flight operations at United said in a staff note that the company and the pilots union had reached an agreement for higher pay to cover open trips.
3 and triple pay for picking up trips between Jan.
The pilots union wrote to its members that they are currently seeing record levels of pilot sick calls due to the rapid spread of the COVID Omicron variant. Over the past week, United has experienced a large number of canceled flights.
United's flight attendants are getting extra pay to pick up trips and other airlines have also jacked up crew pay to avoid holiday flight disruptions.
