EasyJet cancels hundreds of half-term flights from Gatwick as getaway begins

EasyJet has cancelled 240 flights over the half-term holidays. Photograph: David Parry/PA

EasyJet has cancelled more than 200 flights over half-term from London Gatwick, upending the plans of tens of thousands of holidaymakers in the busiest period for air travel since the pandemic.

The last-minute cancellations came the day after the airline, Britain’s biggest by passenger numbers, suffered IT problems that left a further 200 flights unable to take off, and followed cancellations earlier in the day at London Gatwick in the early morning peak.