Airline Easyjet has announced it is cancelling 1,700 summer flights in a move which it has confirmed will impact on 180,000 passengers. The low-cost airline this morning said that the flights which are mostly from Gatwick affected are from July - September.
The airline blamed ‘constrained airspace’ on the decision, but claimed 95 per cent of people who have flights cancelled have been booked onto alternatives. The remainder have been offered a refund, Easyjet added.
The airline blamed air traffic control delays that have been worsened by the war in Ukraine, rather than pilot or crew shortages. The majority of the cancellations are at Gatwick because of easyJet’s major presence there, but it is also understood that air traffic control delays at Gatwick are around three times longer before the pandemic.
