Airlines in Europe Say They Are Flying Near-Empty Planes as Omicron Derails Travel. They Say E.U. Rules Mean They Can’t Stop

Lufthansa says it may need to operate 18,000 "poorly booked" flights this winter to keep airport slots. It and other carriers want the EU to remove use-or-lose slot threshold requirements through the pandemic at least. Those rules were lifted early in the outbreak, but have since been reinstated at reduced levels. An EU official says the airlines' "ghost flight" claims don't square with the data, which measured early January passenger traffic at 77% of its… (www.msn.com) Más...