handling. pilots and flight attendants, it s harder to get them hired and trained, it takes time. i think by next summer we ll see a lot of improvement. but, you know, this isn t something that can be fixed right away. if that s the case, this is the long haul, so many people felt cooped up the last two to three years, they want to get out. so what your tips to help people make summer, fall, winter plans since you say this is going to be awhile before things return to kind of normal? the best things you can do, book your flights as far in advance if you can, try to take the first flight of the day, that s before delays from things like weather start stacking up. and the days and weeks before travel check your reservation, keep looking, see if there are delays or cancellations. if you find out early you can jump on it ahead of time, manage
the president s plan to deal with rapidly spreading omicron variance. set to address the nation in just a matter of hours. the white house correspondent kevin corke is tracking the latest developments, good evening, kevin. white house telling fox news don t expect a game changer of a speech but rather where we are and where we are going in this fight to slow the spread of the virus. the speech is expected to build on his winter plans and address access to testing, booster shots, no lockdowns, mask mandates and of course the risk of the unvaccinated. this is not a speech about walking the country down but whole ending and being direct and clear with the american people about the benefits of being vaccinated, steps that we will take with access and testing and the risk posed to unvaccinated. with the white house mercilessly mocked after cheap
past two days in a row. meantime, schools across the country are going back to remote learning. today the white house is clarifying vice president kamala harris comment that both major variants caught the administration off guard, this as president biden now plans to address the american people tuesday to outline new steps he s taking to combat the virus and these variants. we have fox team coverage. lauren green is standing by here in new york, but we begin with mark meredith in wilmington, delaware, where president biden is spending the weekend. mark. reporter: molly, good evening to you. we are going to be hearing a lot from president biden on covid as well as where the country stands in the fight against the pandemic. he s going to be delivering a speech on tuesday. we don t know exactly what time, but we are getting a better idea of what he s going to say from white house press secretary jen psaki who tweeted out what the president will lay out. quote: building off of his winte
under the new rules from 11pm uk time tomorrow travellers will have to give a compelling reason for coming to france. they will have to provide a negative covid test result less than 24 hours old and isolate for at least two days upon arrival until they receive a second negative result. the move is being blamed on the uk s high number of omicron cases. tourism businesses were already worried that the uk s travel testing requirements were making some customers rethink their winter plans. many people will have been preparing to go to france for christmas, including on the eurostar from london st pancras, so the announcement by france comes at a really bad time for the travel industry. we have had something like a third of the usual volume of passengers for the last two years. we really needed the boost of a good christmas season to carry us through into 2022, which has to be our comeback year. so this is a big hammer blow for us as a business.