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UK holidaymakers face cancelled flights and ferry delays in Easter travel chaos

High rates of staff absences due to Covid and fallout from P&O Ferries scandal contribute to disruption over busy spring break

The Guardian - UK

Easter holiday travel chaos continues as people going to France told to bring supplies for long Dover queues

Travellers via the Channel Tunnel are being advised to bring food and drink amid lengthy queues

Evening Standard

Labour calls on ministers to act to prevent Easter travel chaos

Shadow transport secretary said the Government should prioritise airport staff for security checks so they can start work.

The Independent UK

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P&O scraps all ferry services telling customers 'book with another operator'

The operator's services were due to resume this weekend

Liverpool Echo

P&O Ferries full list of cancellations this weekend and your refund rights explained

Full list of P&O Ferries cancellations this weekend as the ferry operator has axed routes including Dover, Calais, Larne and Cairnyarn with passengers told to find alternatives themselves

Daily Mirror

P&O Ferries suspends all services and tells customers to find another travel firm

The ferry operator had suspended services since March after firing 800 staff

Nottingham Post

P&O Ferries axes all services and tells customers to find another travel firm

This week it was announced P&O Ferries were preparing to resume services but in an online update the scandal-hit firm confirmed all weekend services are suspended

Daily Mirror

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Easter travel chaos: what to do if your flight is delayed or you catch Covid

Flight’s cancelled? Missed it as a result of queues? Stuck at a ferry port? We look at your rights

The Guardian - UK

Airlines and cross-Channel services brace for busiest weekend since Covid

Air travellers told to allow extra time for queues, while Eurotunnel expects rising traffic and P&O ferries remain suspended

The Guardian - UK

Glitch in post-Brexit customs system adds to major Channel lorry chaos on Kent roads

A 23-mile stretch of the M20 is closed amid HMRC technical problems and a ferry shortage

The Independent UK

Travel chaos predicted for Easter breaks amid airport woes and rail engineering work

Staff sickness and pandemic job cuts have been blamed for chaos at UK airports, where passenger numbers will swell this weekend and next week. Some of the worst queues have been at Manchester airport

Daily Mirror

P&O Ferries owner DP World loses status as partner in Solent freeport

Exclusive: ministers confirm Emirati logistics giant no longer has central role after anger at sacking of 800 workers

The Guardian - UK

Reinspection of P&O ferry detained last month in N Ireland

The ferry was detained in Northern Ireland on March 25.

The Independent UK

Chaos as 23-mile stretch of motorway closed due to ferry shortage

Part of the M20 in Kent has been closed to store thousands of lorries heading for the Port of Dover

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The Independent UK

Chaos in Kent as 23-mile stretch of M20 closed due to ferry shortage

Delays to Channel crossings are being driven by the suspension of P&O Ferries sailings after the operator sacked nearly 800 seafarers without notice.

The Independent UK

Easter holiday travel chaos: what’s going on?

Trains, boats and planes all face problems over Easter

Wales Online

P&O Ferries being sued for £76m by former sous chef following 'brutal' dismissal

John Lansdown is the only seafarer out of the 800 fired staff to take legal action against P&O Ferries, claiming unfair dismissal, racial discrimination and harassment

Wales Online

Only one of P&O's eight ferries has been cleared to sail three weeks on from mass sackings

Sailings from Dover to Calais have been cancelled this weekend, threatening to affect travellers hoping to get abroad during the Easter period

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The Independent UK

Easter holiday travel chaos: what’s going on?

Trains, boats and planes all face problems this weekend and over Easter

Daily Record

P&O Ferries announces plans to restart sailings in Scotland 'from this weekend'

The firm revealed plans to resume operations for four of its ships for the first time since it sacked nearly 800 seafarers.

Manchester Evening News

P&O Ferries to resume sailings on routes suspended since it sacked nearly 800 staff

The Pride of Kent and Spirit of Britain, between Dover and Calais, are two of the vessels to resume sailing

Birmingham Post

P&O Ferries reveals plans to resume sailings

The company sparked outrage by replacing its crews with cheaper agency workers, without notice

Belfast Live

Larne P&O ferry to resume sailing next week after being detained

The company sacked almost 800 seafarers and replaced them with agency staff on cheaper salaries.

Nottingham Post

Ex-P&O Ferries chef suing for £76million over 'sham redundancy' claims

Tribunals have never previously made a punitive award of damages on such a scale

The Independent UK

P&O Ferries announces plans to resume sailings

The firm sacked nearly 800 seafarers without notice on March 17.

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