United has started offering staff vaccines in airports again as the omicron wave sweeps through crews.
More than 96% of the company's roughly 67,000 U.S. employees are vaccinated, following a companywide mandate.United Airlines ramp services worker John Dalessandro receives a COVID-19 vaccine at United's onsite clinic at O'Hare International Airport on March 09, 2021 in Chicago, Illinois.started offering staff vaccines again at some of its busiest airports this week as the omicron variant continues to spread throughout the U.S. and within its own employee ranks.
The Chicago-based airline is administering Covid-19 booster shots at several of its busiest hubs: Newark Liberty International Airport, George Bush Intercontinental/Houston Airport, Chicago O'Hare International Airport and Won Pat International Airport in Guam, spokeswoman Leslie Scott said. The airline last August established the strictest vaccine requirements of any U.S. airline, telling staff to get immunized unless they get a religious or medical exemption, or face termination. More than 96% of United's 67,000 U.S. employees have been vaccinated."This is another step we are taking to educate our employees on the importance of boosters and make them easily accessible," said Scott.
United's revival of the airport vaccination program comes as the rapid-spread of omicron sidelined airline workers, contributing to 20,000 flight cancellations between Christmas Eve and the first week of January.were out from Covid infections and that a third of its staff on one recent day at its hub at Newark Liberty International Airport had called out sick from the virus.
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