More than 200 flights were cancelled by easyJet over the weekend, with dozens more grounded on Monday across the country.
EasyJet confirmed today that 10 of those flights were set to jet off from Liverpool airport. However, they were grounded after high levels of employee sickness.
An EasyJet spokesperson told the Liverpool ECHO : "10 flights from Liverpool were cancelled as a result of higher than usual levels of employee covid sickness. Customers have been contacted and provided with their options which include rebooking onto an alternative flight or receiving a voucher or full refund."
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Today, a total of 62 flights scheduled have been pulled across the country with the majority announced at short notice over the weekend. However, EasyJet confirmed that no flights to or from Liverpool today have currently been cancelled.
The cancellations come after travel chaos hit some of Britain's biggest airports at the weekend, with passengers at Heathrow and Manchester airports stuck in long queues waiting to check in.
An easyJet spokesperson said yesterday: "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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