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Today. as nadia laid out. we know a lot of people are facing trouble at the airports despite many experts predicting a lot of travelers the airlines seemingly are unprepared, stretched really thin, not able -- it's really a case of, i think, over promising and under delivering, not able to handle these crowds. why are they so unprepared for this? >> well, a lot of it is down to staffing issues so throughout the pandemic folks at the airlines were either furloughed or let go or offered early retirement and so they haven't yet staffed back up that's one thing when you're talking about gate agent...

It. certainly not the united states where, you know -- and we've been seeing it mika obviously for the past couple of months, one cancellation after another cancellation, trying to get one of my sons up to new york. and three flights cancelled from three different airlines, all in the same day. i ended up finding a flight to get back home. >> it's not a quick fix. these are -- there are global factors here. >> they're global factors, but this is a staffing -- if you talk to the pilots, hey, what's going on here? if you talk to the flight attendants, the gate agents and sort of take them to the...

Putting the blame on winter weather and the highly contagious omicron variant, infecting workers, and over 1,700 t.s.a. agents are infected with covid. >> airlines did not see this new variant coming. if pilots and flight attendants and gate agents can't go to work, how can the airlines run the schedule they sold to the public months okay. >> reporter: united airlines' solution is offer triple pay to the pilots in hopes of easing january shortages and the flight attendants union is hitting back against the c.d.c. after the agency cut the isolation time for covid-infected workers from 10 days t...

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