Britain’s biggest holiday company, Tui, announced overnight that it has cancelled nearly 200 outbound flights from Manchester airport to a range of holiday destinations between now and the end of June. The cancellations began immediately – including a holiday departure from Manchester to Fuerteventura in Spain’s Canary Islands. Sue Leighton, one of the passengers booked to travel, was told late...
ON THE GROUND Why are flights being cancelled?
LONG queues snaking out of airports have become a common sight in the UK since Easter. This weekend, as half term kicked off, the issues worsened – airlines have been cancelling flights and families have been pictured sleeping on the terminal floor. As popular foreign holiday destinations relaxed their Covid border rules ahead of spring / summer 2022, the travel industry had been expecting...