The airline said it had already contacted 95 percent of passengers and rerouted them to alternative flights. Other passengers will be offered a refund or rebooking by the company. Approximately nine thousand passengers remain.
“We currently operate approximately 1,800 flights and transport approximately 250,000 customers per day. Plus with more crew and pilots than ever before. Like all airlines, we also check our flights on an ongoing basis,” an easyJet spokesperson said, apologizing to customers for the inconvenience.
“As reported by Eurocontrol, the entire industry is facing challenging conditions this summer with restricted airspace due to the war in Ukraine, resulting in unprecedented flight delays, as well as further potential staff strikes,” he added.
After several outages at Sussex Airport in the past few days, the flight cancellations raise further concerns about whether European airspace is resilient enough to the restrictions while also being able to cope with the demand for flights, reports The Guardian. In addition, there is a threat of further strikes due to the lack of employees in the flight control.
It’s not primarily staffing issues like last year, when thousands of flights were canceled because of it, the company said. This is really a possible air traffic control problem that could occur in the summer.
Flight cancellations concern London’s Gatwick airport in particular. The reason for widespread flight cancellations is to avoid last-minute cancellations, which are much more expensive and cause more problems for passengers. easyJet is Britain’s largest airline by passenger numbers.
Airspace for British airlines in particular is unpredictable mainly due to frequent air traffic strikes in France, which causes carriers to divert their flights to longer routes.
2023-07-10 15:10:00
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