British Airways has cancelled 140 short-haul flights to and from its main base, London Heathrow airport on Monday.
The Independent calculates 26 domestic flights have been grounded, including four round-trips from Heathrow to Edinburgh and two to both Aberdeen and Glasgow. inverness, Manchester, Newcastle and Jersey are also affected.
One hundred and fourteen international flights are cancelled, including four round-trips from Heathrow to Amsterdam and holiday flights to Faro, Malaga and Venice.
BA says the flight cancellations are pre-planned and that passengers were given advance notice – with some departures taken out of the schedules many weeks ahead.
While airlines do not disclose passenger loads on the grounds of commercial sensitivity, if an average of 80 people were booked on each flight at the point of cancellation then more than 11,000 travellers will have been affected by today’s cancellations.
British Airways departures from Heathrow
Domestic: 13 outbound, 26 sectors in total
- Aberdeen (2)
- Belfast City
- Edinburgh (4)
- Glasgow (2)
- Inverness
- Jersey
- Manchester
- Newcastle
International: 57 outbound, 114 sectors in total
- Amsterdam (4)
- Barcelona
- Basel
- Berlin (2)
- Bologna
- Brussels (2)
- Bucharest
- Budapest
- Copenhagen (2)
- Dublin (2)
- Dusseldorf
- Faro
- Frankfurt
- Geneva (2)
- Gibraltar
- Hamburg (2)
- Istanbul
- Luxembourg
- Lyon
- Madrid
- Malaga
- Milan Linate
- Milan Malpensa
- Munich
- Mykonos
- Naples
- Oslo
- Paris CDG (2)
- Pisa
- Porto
- Prague
- Rome (2)
- Split
- Stockholm
- Stuttgart
- Toulouse
- Venice
- Vienna
- Warsaw
- Zurich (2)
British Airways has brought in aircraft and crew from its Oneworld partner Finnair to try to stabilise its schedules over the summer.
Besides the cancellations by BA, the UK’s biggest budget airline, easyJet, has been cancelling dozens of flights daily – particularly to and from its largest base, London Gatwick.
While most cancellations are notified with several days advance warning, on Monday morning easyJet grounded some round-trips at very short notice from Gatwick – including departures to Seville and Rome, grounded with an hour’s warning.
All passengers whose flights are cancelled are entitled to new flights on the original day of departure if a seat is available, even if it is on a rival airline.
If the cancellation was announced less than two weeks in advance and the airline is responsible, they are also due cash compensation.
