Why are EasyJet, Virgin, British Airways and TUI are cancelling flights? Here's the airlines causing chaos at airports including Stansted and Gatwick.
, and everyone looks forward to their travels, here are the airlines currently cancelling flights and why:A popular budget airline, bosses have said they are cancelling around 7% of their 160,000 flights scheduled between July and September from airports including Gatwick and Amsterdam.
So why are EasyJet cancelling so many flights? They've blamed a number of reasons including staff shortages across the airport and airline, as well as increase in demand since thEasyJet's chief executive, Johan Lundgren has said: "Coupled with airport caps, we are taking pre-emptive actions to increase resilience over the balance of summer, including a range of further flight consolidations in the affected airports, giving advance notice to customers and we expect the vast majority...
The travel company has blamed the disruption on "ongoing challenges" along with "operational and supply chain issues". They have yet to give a full explanation but a spokesperson has said: "We’re incredibly sorry to those customers who have been impacted by the recent disruption to our operations. A Heathrow spokesperson said: "We apologise unreservedly for the disruption passengers have faced over the course of this weekend.
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