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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Travel
Helen Coffey and Simon Calder

All the flights cancelled today from UK airports

Copyright 2020 The Associated Press. All rights reserved

Another day, another unremitting stream of travel chaos.

Passengers attempting to jet off on their Easter holidays are encountering widespread flight cancellations, at airports across the UK.

Once again British Airways and easyJet have grounded more than 100 services between them from their main bases, London Heathrow and London Gatwick respectively, affecting between 15,000 and 20,000 passengers.

BA says passengers were given notice of a week or two of flight cancellations, due to resourcing issues.

British Airways has not made on-the-day cancellations.

The airlines cite staff shortages caused by sickness as the cause of their problems.

Here are the flights that are cancelled so far today at Heathrow by BA and at Gatwick by easyJet.

British Airways has cancelled 84 domestic and European flights so far on Sunday.

British Airways to/from Heathrow

Domestic

  • Jersey
  • Edinburgh
  • Manchester

European

  • Milan Malpensa (3)
  • Amsterdam (2)
  • Athens (2)
  • Brussels (2)
  • Copenhagen (2)
  • Frankfurt (2)
  • Madrid (2)
  • Geneva (2)
  • Barcelona
  • Rome
  • Toulouse
  • Bologna
  • Luxembourg
  • Basel
  • Pisa
  • Algiers
  • Zagreb
  • Munich
  • Nice
  • Berlin
  • Istanbul
  • Stockholm
  • Lisbon
  • Tirana
  • Bucharest
  • Milan Linate
  • Prague
  • Paris
  • Larnaca
  • Lyon

Meanwhile easyJet has cancelled at least 38 flights so far on Sunday from its biggest base, Gatwick. Other cancellations have been made from Luton, Bristol and Manchester.

EasyJet to/from Gatwick

  • Berlin (2)
  • Nice (2)
  • Hamburg (2)
  • Thessaloniki
  • Sofia
  • Krakow
  • Milan Linate
  • Belfast City
  • Geneva
  • Amsterdam
  • Hamburg
  • Prague
  • Luxembourg
  • Palma
  • Rome
  • La Rochelle

All passengers whose flights are cancelled are entitled to new flights and, if the cause is staff sickness, cash compensation – if the cancellation was announced less than two weeks in advance.

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