Evansville airport largely unaffected by holiday break vacation delays

EVANSVILLE, Ind. (WFIE) – Air travelers have witnessed a great deal of delays this weekend due to a wide variety of aspects, which includes the rapid-spreading omicron variant of COVID-19, as nicely as the large variety of people today traveling for the Christmas holiday getaway. But how have these delays affected men and women flying into the Tri-Condition?

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It’s been a rather gradual working day at Evansville Regional Airport, and all of their flights have arrived on agenda – if not a little bit early.

14 News spoke with travelers coming into town from Charlotte and Chicago. These passengers say they had blended activities with the airports.

Some travelers say they had to hold out quite a few several hours in among gates, while many others say they flew via the airport in about 20 minutes.

A single woman put in 22 hrs of the day traveling from Amsterdam to see liked ones for the first time in two a long time.

“I was an trade scholar here about 5 a long time ago and thanks to COVID, I wasn’t capable to come property for two years,” Viktoria Fink mentioned. “Christmas is about remaining with the men and women you like the most and I haven’t had the possibility to be here in two yrs, so I’m happy to lastly devote the suitable Christmas collectively with them once again.”

It looks the higher variety of canceled and delayed flights across the region has not hit the Tri-Point out spot, and most individuals will make it household to their people in time for Xmas.

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