Put upon passengers at Edinburgh Airport are being caught in twice as long delays compared to pre-pandemic levels, new research suggests. Flyers from Edinburgh suffered the third worst UK airport delays in June, which averaged 26 minutes and were more than twice as long as before Covid at 116 percent, compared to a national average of 71 percent.
The report from aviation analytics firm Cirium showed cancellations are having a greater impact on travel because airlines are operating around one quarter fewer flights than in 2019. It said the proportion of flights cancelled at short notice (fewer than three days) had increased to three per cent at Glasgow Airport in June compared to one per cent in June 2019.
At Edinburgh, the figure increased from 0.8 percent to 2.3 percent. Airport bosses said their industry was one of the hardest hit by the pandemic and that a full recovery within months was "unrealistic."
