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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Travel
Simon Calder

All quiet on the airport front? Noise curfews can play havoc with travel plans

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Imagine you were aboard easyJet’s Sunday evening flight from London Gatwick to Basel. The plane departed over two hours late. The airline blamed air-traffic control restrictions throughout the day; earlier, Ryanair said 15 per cent of its first-wave departures that morning left late because of shortages of air-traffic controllers across Europe.

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