Dramatic move:
London Heathrow International Airport announced this week that it will impose a occupancy limit that will ban the entry of more than 100,000 take-off passengers on the day until September 11, in an attempt to deal with the expected disruptions during the summer season.
Britain’s busiest airport, like others across Europe, is struggling to cope with demand recovering after the epidemic.
Heathrow had between 110,000 and 125,000 departing passengers every day in July and August 2019. Airlines, baggage handling crews and other airport crews can together serve 100,000 departing passengers a day, a number of which regularly exceed in recent weeks, leading to poor service levels.
The airport will limit the number of passengers per day, Photo: IP
British Airways has dropped thousands of flights from schedules
"Some airlines have taken significant action, but others have not, and we believe further action is needed to ensure passengers a safe and reliable ride," CEO John Holland-Kay said in an open letter last Tuesday. "Introduce a capacity limit valid from July 12 to September 11."
Hundreds of suitcases remained stuck,
Holland-Kay added: "We recognize that this means that some of the summer trips will be moved to another day, to another airport or canceled and we apologize to those whose travel plans are affected."
Meanwhile, British Airways, Heathrow's biggest customer, has already dropped thousands of flights from its schedules this summer due to a shortage of staff.
At the same time, the airport apologized to customers for the long queues and claimed that the situation was due to a shortage of manpower.
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