exceed the total number of cancellations we saw just yesterday. look at the numbers from flight aware. 2300 flights canceled today. more than 700 flights delayed. travelers really can't catch a break here. the airlines can't catch a break. they say, sure, winter weather is a major factor here. the big issue is that so many airline workers are calling out sick because they have been exposed to coronavirus or they have become infected with coronavirus. look at the airline by airline break down here. southwest airlines leading the way with the number of cancellations, about one in every five flights canceled by southwest for last few days. its strategy is to get more workers to come in. it is incentivizing flight attendants by giving them double pay for rest of the month. alaska airlines has had to trim back the schedule by 10% for rest of the month, because it says it had to cancel 16% of its flights this month, just needs to push the reset switch. when you look back, the last two weeks, 27,000 flights in total