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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Lifestyle
Juliana Piskorz

Planes, trains and automobiles — how to fix your summer holiday

Summer 2022 was billed as a return to normality; with festivals, holidays and outdoor events back on the menu. But, after a slew of train strikes, flight cancellations, fuel spikes and staffing shortages, it’s looking more like a summer of discontent than the summer of love we all hoped for.

Last week, holidaymakers were further besieged by news that British Airways were cancelling another 1,500 flights in July, making airline travel even riskier than a game of Russian Roulette with Valdimir Putin.

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