The UK's biggest airport has warned passengers may be kicked off flights to ease travel disruption and lift the pressure on airports following lockdown, it has been suggested. Bosses at Heathrow Airport have urged airlines to stop selling seats on some flights and introduced a passenger cap instead of cancelling journeys altogether.
Heathrow wants to limit passenger numbers to 100,000 a day - reducing the total by 4,000 daily - as part of a scheme to limit the risk of delay and cancellations ahead of peak summer travel getaway. Bumping passengers off flights may result in some departing with many partially empty,
However, despite plans to cut passenger numbers, hundreds of flights are still expected to be grounded during the main holiday period.
