Travel hell: airports across the country are in chaos
(Picture: Ben Turner)When Yil Mills, 32, reached the other side of Gatwick security ahead of her flight to Cyprus last week, she finally allowed herself a sigh of a relief: after three years of not seeing her family because of the pandemic, and a summer of holiday horror stories about airport chaos, she finally felt within touching distance of making it back to her home country for a family wedding.
Looking back, she wishes she hadn’t got her hopes up. An hour before her British Airways (BA) flight was due to take off, Mills receieved the text she’d been dreading: the flight was cancelled due to pilot illness. A search online showed there was no flight for three days, meaning she’d miss the wedding and a signficant portion of a two-week trip she hoped to spend seeing her sick grandmother.
