MORE British Airways flights cancelled today as Brits face another day of travel chaos

BRITISH Airways has cancelled a lot more flights now, affecting Brits heading on their Easter holiday seasons.

The airline has cancelled 78 flights from Heathrow nowadays on another day of travel chaos.

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Last thirty day period, BA declared it would be minimizing its summer season routine in between now and the conclusion of Could to try and steer clear of far more journey complications, right after 1000’s of travellers experienced their flight cancelled because of to IT troubles.

As a result, 76 of today’s cancelled flights had been pre-prepared, with just two being cancelled at the last minute owing to employees shortages induced by Covid.

The two cancelled routes were from Heathrow to Dublin and Heathrow to Milan.

A spokesperson for BA said: “Only two of the flights that we’ve cancelled today were being mainly because of Covid – the others had been all scheduled.”

“The cancelled flights ended up to Milan and Dublin. We have place a extensive-haul plane on to fly to Dublin so that all afflicted travellers can travel on the same working day.”

It really is not just BA that has experienced with cancellations in new times.

EasyJet was forced to terminate about 100 flights on Monday – 62 of which have been set to acquire off from the United kingdom – and cancelled yet another 60 flights yesterday.

Airways are blaming staff shortages brought on by widespread Covid an infection for the flight disruption.

A spokesman for easyJet said on Sunday: “As a result of the present-day large prices of Covid infections across Europe, like all firms easyJet is enduring greater than common levels of staff sickness.”

Yesterday, the boss in charge of Manchester Airport give up soon after a further working day of travel chaos, and warned travellers will confront delays for months to come.

Police may possibly even be drafted in to support address the crisis and some passengers are shifting their flights to other airports – Raj Singh instructed the BBC he moved his flights to London Luton due to obtaining “zero self-assurance” with Manchester Airport.

And it just isn’t just the airports going through difficulties – the suspension of P&O services saw queues up to 9 hrs in excess of the weekend coming into Dover.

Stansted Airport has unveiled a listing of recommendations for holidaymakers to help them navigate the extensive queues anticipated about the Easter weekend.

This is what you need to do if your flight is cancelled.

And we’ve explained how to declare compensation if your flight is delayed or cancelled.

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