It’s time. The summer holidays are upon us and that sunshine jaunt booked back in January is suddenly imminent. But as the first travel chaos stories of the season start to pepper the headlines – a power cut here, a baggage meltdown there – clouds of anxiety can gather over daydreams of beach bliss.
In the post-pandemic rush to head overseas, the air and travel industry uncovered ever more new things to go wrong. In 2022 came the realisation that there were simply not enough staff for the flights sold to take cooped-up Brits briefly off the island. Then last summer culminated in an unprecedented air traffic meltdown affecting tens of thousands of passengers.
