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| Baggage being reclaimed at Heathrow's Terminal Three on July 8, 2022 (File photo: AFP) |
According to the statement released by London's Heathrow Airport, the daily departure limit for this summer should be limited to 100,000 passengers in order to limit incidents such as long queues, baggage delays and cancellations. will
Heathrow management has asked airlines to stop selling tickets for flights that are likely to be delayed.
Britain's busiest airport, like the rest of Europe, is struggling to cope with the post-coronavirus surge in passenger numbers.
Heathrow Airport continued to handle 110,000 to 125,000 daily passenger departures during July and August 2019.
Airlines have previously complied with Heathrow management's request to reduce passenger numbers, but now the airport has asked for further reductions.
In an open letter, Heathrow CEO John Holland-Kay issued a statement on Tuesday saying: "Some airlines have taken significant action but others have not, which we believe is necessary to ensure the safe and reliable travel of passengers." More action is needed now.'
"So we have taken the difficult decision to introduce passenger limits from July 12 to September 11."
"We recognize that this will mean that some summer journeys will either be moved to another day, to another airport or cancelled, and we apologize to those affected," he added. whose travel plans have been affected.
According to the London Hub, this travel limit is in line with other international decisions. In the Netherlands, Schiphol authorities have reduced passenger numbers by around 16% compared to 2019, while Frankfurt has reduced peak hours from 104 flights per hour to 94 flights per hour.
According to Heathrow, the average number of outgoing seats in the summer schedule was still 104,000 per day, 4,000 above its limit.
According to Heathrow's CEO, "We are asking our airline partners to stop selling summer tickets in order to limit the impact of mismanagement or passengers."
British Airways, Heathrow Airport's biggest customer airline, has already cut thousands of flights from its schedule this summer due to staff shortages.
Heathrow also issued an apology on Monday for long customer queues and baggage problems in recent weeks, blaming staff shortages across aviation.
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