London British Airways announced on Monday that between October and March, it will discontinue about 10,000 short-haul flights to and from London’s Heathrow Airport. Going into the winter season, there are conflicting indications about travelling in Europe.
This summer, major European airports were in a state of chaos as passengers eager to travel after two years of COVID-19 restrictions encountered staffing shortages, resulting in lengthy queues, delayed baggage, and cancelled flights.
A total of 629 round-trip flights per day through the end of October would also be cancelled, the firm announced on Monday.
To lessen the recent travel chaos, airports including Heathrow, Schiphol in Amsterdam, and Gatwick capped the amount of people or flights that could fly each day.
During the autumn school breaks, the airline intends to keep its links to well-liked vacation spots. According to the airline, the majority of the cancellations will be made known well in advance, and passengers should be able to change to other connections.
Due to a severe staff shortage, Heathrow, the largest airport in Britain, has set a daily limit of no more than 100,000 passengers.
This was recently extended till the end of October after originally expiring in the middle of September. British Airways has already cancelled nearly 30,000 flights this summer.
Gatwick, the second-largest airport in Britain, announced that it had progressively boosted passenger capacity and hired more than 400 more security personnel in an effort to minimize wait times.
According to airport officials, no further modification of flying programmes is required now that more resources have been deployed across the Gatwick operation. This year, Gatwick anticipates 32.8 million travelers.
Many airports and airlines in Europe struggled to hire enough workers to handle check-ins and baggage when post-lockdown travel began to pick up.