British Airways has announced it plans to cut thousands of flights from its winter schedule because of airport passenger caps and dwindling demand as fall and winter approach.
The
airline said total capacity for its winter schedule until the end of
March 2023 will be reduced by 8%, which will affect roughly 10,000
flights (or about 5,000 round trips).
The announcement follows the recent extension of a daily limit of 100,000 passengers currently in place at Heathrow Airport in London.
The
airport had to impose the cap in July as it struggled to handle
staffing shortages, long lines, flight delays and mountains of lost
luggage during the summer peak.
The cap extension at Heathrow, the largest airport serving the United Kingdom, also affects hundreds of British Airways flights between now and late October.
"For
us, it means we have to cancel on average a further 12 short-haul round
trips from London Heathrow each day," the airline said in a statement.
Through October 29, that's a total of 629 round trip flights.
Affected
customers will be offered another flight with British Airways or
another airline, the statement said. If that doesn't work for them, they
will be given the option of a refund.
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