Bad news travels – and travelling now is bad news

If a cautionary story have been wanted as an example the perils of UK travel in the meanwhile, it’s to be discovered within the case of a gentleman who earlier this week braved a return journey from London to Glasgow.

After his flight from Heathrow was cancelled, the unnamed, however commendably unbowed, traveller drove two hours to Stansted Airport to fly with an alternate service. Having made it to Scotland, his return flight was cancelled. With practice companies house totally booked, he discovered himself caught in Glasgow and his automotive in Essex.

Sadly, he isn’t alone. Thousands and thousands of Britons are presently struggling the undesirable nervousness of questioning whether or not they’ll arrive at airports – at house and overseas – to be confronted with queues, delays or even cancellations caused by airline staff shortages.

Pilots working for easyJet have warned in a letter obtained by i that the worst disruption is still to come for the low-cost airline, and now the summer time getaway is additional threatened by disgruntled employees voting in strike ballots

In equity, the cancellations have an effect on solely a fraction of the plane taking to Britain’s skies – easyJet, one of many worst affected by current upheaval, remains to be getting 250,000 folks a day to their locations on 1,700 flights.

However strive explaining that all the pieces is usually nicely to the households who will discover their longed-for post-Covid summer time holidays have vaporised in a stench of empty crew rosters and out-of-position plane.

It’s certainly not proper that one other worth of the pandemic must be an unwarranted incapacity for tens of 1000’s of Britons to – lastly – get away from all of it.