Travel more and more at risk in the coming months, especially during the summer season. Airlines operating in Europe already have filed an average of 500 flights per day scheduled in the peak semester of 2023, but the number of canceled frequencies is still set to rise. The countries most in difficulty would be Germany, the United Kingdom, Holland and France.
90,000 flights canceled in Europe
Corriere della Sera takes stock of the situation on the basis of data provided by Airline Data Inc on the programmatic evolution of airlines on the European continent. In the period between April and September, the companies have removed from the sales channels more than 90,000 flights already planned. There is talk of over 11 million fewer seats only on internal connections and about 2.5% of the elimination of scheduled take-offs at the various airports.
According to insiders they would be at least another 100,000 flights at risk scheduled between June and September. The objective of the carriers would be to remove the frequencies that could create more inconvenience to punctuality. The most delicate months will be June and July: according to the numbers reported, last year in the same period the main airlines (the Air France-Klm and Lufthansa groups, the Iag holding, easyJet and the low cost airlines Ryanair and Wizz Air) had removed 4.66% of their you fly.
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Post pandemic problems
The current situation effectively follows the line of cancellations that it has characterized the high season of 2022. For the Italians who wanted to travel to Europe, the summer months had been marked by chaos: the drastic change in the flight plan was decisive, reduced due to a serious lack of personnel.
Following the crisis caused by the pandemic for travel restrictions, they had occurred numerous layoffs both on-board and airport personnel. The maxi leave of the sector has not kept pace with the slow return to normal life: on the one hand the offer of flights has returned to increase, but on the other the new hires have not been able to cover all the shortcomings.
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The situation in European airports
According to the intergovernmental organization Eurocontrol, which manages air traffic, soon there could be “major inconvenience” on the continent not only because there are few air traffic controllers in some areas, but also because of the risk of strikes. As mentioned, the situation is particularly delicate in Germany, the United Kingdom, Holland and France.
According to what reported by the Corriere della Sera the airport of Frankfurt it is still severely understaffed. The stopover of Amsterdam it asked carriers to cut May routes by 5 per cent, especially those in the morning, setting the maximum number of departing day travelers allowed for the month at 66,000. The airport of Londra Heathrow instead it will ban the addition of further frequencies during the summer.
Similar problems have surfaced also overseas, especially in North America. Already in January the CEO of United Airlines, one of the world’s largest carriers, had denounced that in the United States the companies were selling tickets for flights that would not be able to operate.
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