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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 · Apr 8, 2022

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 · Apr 8, 2022

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 · Apr 7, 2022

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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 · Apr 7, 2022

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 · Apr 7, 2022

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

The ferry was detained in Northern Ireland on March 25.

The Independent UK · Apr 7, 2022

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

Wales Online · Apr 7, 2022

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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 · Apr 7, 2022

Easter holiday travel chaos: what’s going on?

Trains, boats and planes all face problems over Easter

The Independent UK · Apr 7, 2022

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 · Apr 7, 2022

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

Wales Online · Apr 6, 2022

Easter holiday travel chaos: what’s going on?

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

The Independent UK · Apr 6, 2022

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.

Daily Record · Apr 6, 2022

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

Manchester Evening News · Apr 6, 2022

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Birmingham Post · Apr 6, 2022

P&O Ferries reveals plans to resume sailings

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

Belfast Live · Apr 6, 2022

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 · Apr 6, 2022

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 · Apr 6, 2022

P&O Ferries announces plans to resume sailings

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

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Daily Mirror · Apr 6, 2022

Majority of P&O services still suspended three weeks on from mass sacking of 800 staff

Of P&O’s eight ferries that were affected by the axing of crew, and replacement by agency workers, just one has been cleared to sail, three weeks on from its decision to fire 800 staff

The Independent UK · Apr 6, 2022

P&O Ferries sets out plan for resumption – with free trips for disrupted travellers

Controversial company hopes to bring two ships back on Dover-Calais next week

Daily Mirror · Apr 6, 2022

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

John Lansdown, who joined P&O as a 16-year-old trainee, was working as a sous chef on The Pride of Canterbury when he was sacked "out of the blue" after the transport giant announced 800 job cuts

The Independent UK · Apr 6, 2022

P&O Ferries passengers told that DFDS can’t take them from Dover to France at the weekend

‘Please do not proceed to port without a confirmed reservation, contact P&O Ferries for alternative travel arrangements,’ says rival ferry firm

The Independent UK · Apr 6, 2022

Airport chaos – live: Easter breaks disrupted as more than 100 British Airways and easyJet flights cancelled

Airlines struggle to cope with surge in demand

Wales Online · Apr 6, 2022

P&O employee suing company for unfair dismissal, discrimination and harassment

"This is not just about me. Seven hundred and ninety nine of my seafaring family have lost their livelihoods"

The Independent UK · Apr 6, 2022

Former P&O employee sues company for unfair dismissal and discrimination

It comes after criminal and civil investigations were launched into the firm’s decision to sack nearly 800 workers.

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