AS many as 100,000 passengers could have their holiday plans ruined this summer after Heathrow introduced a new traveller cap. The airport will only allow 100,000 people to pass through its doors e…
“By making this intervention now, our objective is to protect flights for the vast majority of passengers atthis summer and to give confidence that everyone who does travel through the airport will have a safe and reliable journey and arrive at their destination with their bags.
"We recognise that this will mean some summer journeys will either be moved to another day, another airport orWillie Walsh, director general of the International Air Transport Association , and former BA boss toldhave not been able to get their act together better than this.have been predicting stronger traffic than Heathrow has been predicting ... they clearly got it completely wrong."
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