British Airways to cancel thousands more flights | Travel News

British Airways (BA) has introduced it is going to be making “some additional cancellations” as much as the tip of October, and chopping hundreds of flights from its winter schedule.

It follows the choice by Heathrow to continue its passenger cap, launched in July due to workers shortages.

Greater than 600 spherical journeys shall be cancelled as much as 29 October.

A BA spokesperson mentioned: “Whereas the overwhelming majority of our clients will journey as deliberate, and we’re defending key vacation locations over half-term, we might want to make some additional cancellations as much as the tip of October.”

They added: “As well as, we’re giving clients travelling with us this winter discover of some changes to our schedule, which can embody consolidating a few of our short-haul flights to locations with a number of companies.

“We’ll offer clients affected by any of those modifications another flight with British Airways or one other airline, or the choice of a refund.”

Whole capability for the winter schedule till the tip of March shall be decreased by 8% and influence round 10,000 flights.

Sky Information understands that clients booked for winter will nonetheless be capable of journey, and are being given a number of months’ discover of any modifications.

The passenger cap has already seen hundreds of seats faraway from sale amid issues that it might enhance demand and inflate costs with rival corporations.

Tens of hundreds of flights have been cancelled this summer time because the business struggles to deal with the demand for air journey amid staffing shortages.

In an unprecedented transfer earlier this month, BA introduced a temporary pause in selling new tickets for short-haul flights from Heathrow.

Points with on the UK’s largest and busiest airport led to finances service Ryanair adding more than 500 flights serving the smaller London Stansted throughout the October half-term.