Holidaymakers have been told to prepare for disruption after easyJet cancelled more than 200 flights over the weekend.
The budget airline said that there has been high levels of sickness caused by Covid, which resulted in at least 222 trips being axed since Friday.
Efforts were made to ‘roster’ additional standby staff on Saturday and Sunday, but a number of flights continued to be cancelled.
The disruption is expected again this week, with 62 flights scheduled for today already being pulled - which includes two from Edinburgh Airport.
PA news agency reports that some holidaymakers are reportedly stuck abroad with no explanation or alternative route home offered by the airline.
Customers impacted by the disruption are being offered the choice to rebook on alternative flights or request a refund or voucher for a future flight.
A spokesperson for easyJet said: “As a result of the current high rates of Covid infections across Europe, like all businesses easyJet is experiencing higher than usual levels of employee sickness.
“We have taken action to mitigate this through the rostering of additional standby crew this weekend, however, with the current levels of sickness we have also decided to make some cancellations in advance which were focused on consolidating flights where we have multiple frequencies so customers have more options to rebook their travel, often on the same day.
“Unfortunately it has been necessary to make some additional cancellations for today and tomorrow. We are sorry for any inconvenience this may cause to customers on affected flights.
“We have made 62 pre-emptive cancellations for flights to and from the UK for tomorrow which represents a small proportion of tomorrow’s total flying programme which was planned to be more than 1,645 flights.
“We cancelled the majority of these yesterday.”
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