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Air transport: canceled flights, scenes of chaos ... behind the scenes of the great summer mayhem

2022-08-10T16:57:18.323Z


STORY - The resumption of traffic has been severely disrupted. Many travelers have experienced a nightmarish summer.


Have the actors of air transport had their eyes bigger than their stomachs?

This summer, they had a hard time digesting the resumption of their activity.

The mass return of vacation-hungry travellers, after two years punctuated by the waves of Covid, has given rise to images of chaos in Paris, London, Amsterdam, Frankfurt, Sydney and even Chicago: hours of waiting before checks , thousands of bags piled up in airport halls, tens of thousands of flights canceled since June…

Several airports have taken a drastic measure to avoid being overwhelmed: limiting the number of travelers allowed to fly each day for several months.

Enough to force companies to revise their flight schedules downwards and cancel thousands of slots.

Thus Heathrow airport, the largest in Europe, will not welcome more than 100,000 passengers per day until September, against 110,000 to 125,000 in July and August 2019. His boss asked the…

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Source: lefigaro

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