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Europe’s travel woes deepen as strikes add to scrapped flights

Passengers queue to check in at the departure hall of Terminal 5 at London Heathrow Airport in London on June 13, 2022. (Photo: Bloomberg)

A wave of airline strikes and flight cancellations is deepening Europe’s transport crisis, disrupting travel plans just as the region’s peak summer season gets under way.

Walkouts in coming days at Ryanair Holdings Plc, EasyJet Plc, British Airways and Aeroports de Paris (ADP) will add to the turmoil from staffing shortages that are leading to hours-long delays and thousands of scrapped flights. In the United Kingdom, the transport disarray has been compounded by a rail strike.

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