Brits are facing summer holiday chaos with easyJet cancelling a spate of flights to and from the UK at short notice while many others have been delayed, with some passengers claiming to be stranded abroad.
On the busiest day of the year for air traffic in Europe, thousands of passengers are complaining of chaos at airports including Manchester and Gatwick where people have only learnt that their flights have been cancelled shortly before take-off.
EasyJet customers have contacted the Mirror in their droves to share their frustration at how the move by the budget airline has impacted them. These include people returning to the UK, such as 70-year-old Carole Fuller, a solo traveller, who has been stranded in Bodrum, Turkey, having had her flight to Edinburgh scrapped at short notice.
Ann Thomas and her husband are stuck at Malaga Airport as their flight to Manchester Airport was axed – again due to “air traffic control problems”. Many flights were cancelled on Thursday, including at least 12 by easyJet that were going to and from Liverpool John Lennon airport.
An easyJet spokesperson told The Mirror: “Due to the impact of air traffic control restrictions in place across Europe for much of yesterday, like all airlines operating across European airspace, some of our flights were unable to operate with some knock-on impact on today’s operation.”
