NEW: London's Heathrow Airport announced that it would place a cap on the number of daily departing passengers and asked airlines to stop selling new tickets through the remainder of the summer season.
The passenger cap will last from July 12 to Sept. 11 and limit the daily number of departing passengers to 100,000, Heathrow CEO John Holland-KayeCurrent forecasts suggest that the daily departing numbers are still slated to average 104,000, an excess of 4,000.
"On average only about 1,500 of these 4,000 daily seats have currently been sold to passengers, and so we are asking our airline partners to stop selling summer tickets to limit the impact on passengers," Holland-Kaye wrote.
"By making this intervention now, our objective is to protect flights for the vast majority of passengers at Heathrow this summer and to give confidence that everyone who does travel through the airport will have a safe and reliable journey and arrive at their destination with their bags," he added. While Heathrow began recruiting new employees last year in anticipation of the summer season, parts of the airport's critical functioning remain understaffed, including ground handlers, Holland-Kaye added.Other airports have placed similar limits in recent weeks.during the summer season to 825 daily in July and 850 daily in August., about 16% fewer than airlines had anticipated.
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