More than six thousand flights have been canceled worldwide over the long Christmas weekend and thousands more were delayed, as the highly infectious Omicron variant brings holiday hurt to millions.

Compounding the travel chaos in the United States, severe weather in the country’s west is due to wreak havoc on roadways and other routes there although it may well bring a white Christmas weekend to northwest cities Seattle and Portland.

According to Flightaware.com, more than two thousand, eight hundred flights were scrubbed around the globe on Saturday, including more than nine hundred and ninety originating from or headed to US airports, with over eight thousand, five hundred delays as of five o’clock universal time.