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Travel chaos – 5,000 passengers forced to cancel plans

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4 years ago

June 21, 2022

London’s Heathrow airport is in chaos today after 30 flights carrying a total of 5,000 passengers were cancelled at the eleventh hour

Following technical issues at baggage reclaim areas, airport management requested airlines cut 10 per cent of scheduled flights across terminals two and three.

Lost luggage has a final resting place perhaps….@HeathrowAirport T2…mine’s the black one (I think) pic.twitter.com/u0tDMTgFHj
— Stuart Dempster (@StuDempster) June 17, 2022

Footage like what you are seeing on screen right now has been widely shared online.

Meanwhile, at the city’s Gatwick airport, EasyJet announced its plans to cut 7 per cent of its 160,000 flights between July and September.

Staff shortages are plaguing the aviation sector right now, with Gatwick’s management saying they have no other choice but to reduce the number of flights allowed to take off from the airport.

This means tens of thousands of passengers right across the UK have now been hit by airport disruptions and flight cancellations in the last few weeks alone, and there seems to be no end in sight.

Welcome to #London #Heathrow t-2. Flying to Delhi. Complete Baggage system shutdown. Not a single Bag being loaded in ANY flight. May get bags tomorrow or day after. London temperature 31 degree, passengers 51. Trying to enjoy. #airportchaos #airindiain #UK pic.twitter.com/W2yEyGiket
— Arun Asthana (@arunasthana) June 17, 2022

Heathrow says cutting the number of flights will ultimately “minimise” the impact of the technical issues affecting the baggage systems, apologising for disruptions passengers have faced.

Just a few weeks ago, hundreds of flights across Britain were cancelled, with growing concerns of further travel chaos this coming summer.

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