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Flight cancellations – live: Tui customers ‘abandoned’ and easyJet planes grounded
Travellers trying to get away ahead of Jubilee face queues, delays and cancellations
Helen Coffey

Police tell Manchester Airport passengers their holidays are cancelled amid travel chaos

British holidaymakers hoping to jet off this week face continuing travel disruption across the UK, with widespread airport queues, flight delays and cancellations.

Britain’s biggest budget airline, easyJet, has cancelled at least 40 domestic and European flights on Wednesday – mainly to and from its biggest base, London Gatwick airport.

Meanwhile, it has emerged that police were called in to help hundreds of Tui passengers “abandoned” on the runway at Manchester airport for three hours on Sunday.

Grant Shapps is the latest politician to weigh in, laying the blame for the chaos squarely on the travel industry.
The transport secretary accused airlines and tour operators of “seriously overselling flights and holidays”.
https://www.independent.co.uk/travel/ne ... 91454.html

We’re a year on plus, from Brexit. With Brexit came a whole change of system for the UK aviation sector.
Add in a global pandemic, which left much of the world in chaos. But the UK especially was pretty much on its own!

It’s of little surprise to many within the aviation industry, as every sector has demonstrated a continuing lack of forethought. Regulation especially. You’d think that the COVID+pandemic is a worst case scenario, which it largely is. But it actually highlights many deeper set inadequacies.

Eg? I’m still awaiting my licence re-issue some 10 months since re-applying. Despite having been in the UK system since early ‘90s. I’m not alone.

The government; several iterations of, have left the UK severely under resourced, and poorly prepared.

Freightdog are you referring to your drivers license?

I renewed my expired on at Easter online and had the new one within a week (including change of address) so seems something may have gone astray for you

The problem seems to revolve around the transition between EASA states, and then the regeneration of the various records, including my TRI and various ratings. Plus! There’s always a plus.
Different CAAs seem to do things differently within EASA. Standard forms are not nearly as standard as one might imagine, and each CAA has its own idea of what warrants a response time.
The UK, for instance, abide by a charter where they normally have up to 6 weeks to process or respond, and have a habit of taking close to 5 weeks 6days, and 23 hours.
I’m not the only one who applied around the same time, and is still waiting…


The Belgrano has changed little

The UK just isn't fit for a life after Brexit, not least thanks to the head clown in charge, Boris. This is just one more example for their complete and utter incompetence.

Watching this from afar and with no particular affiliation to the UK, I find it quite hilarious. Why his head hasn't been put on a stake on Tower Bridge yet, I have no idea. Maybe it's because the populace is just too fat, too complacent, unwilling to leave their front row seats on their worn out couches in front of their TVs?

Strange thread title

Who else other than the travel agents/airlines selling flights etc that they could not provide could be blamed for all the flights being cancelled etc ?

Nothing to do with Brexit this is happening in many other places, too few staff and the result of 2 years close down of air travel.

Alex wrote: ↑Thu Jun 02, 2022 12:19 am The UK just isn't fit for a life after Brexit, not least thanks to the head clown in charge, Boris. This is just one more example for their complete and utter incompetence.

Watching this from afar and with no particular affiliation to the UK, I find it quite hilarious. Why his head hasn't been put on a stake on Tower Bridge yet, I have no idea. Maybe it's because the populace is just too fat, too complacent, unwilling to leave their front row seats on their worn out couches in front of their TVs?

What has Brexit got to do with it ?


A new study by ACI (Airports Council International) has found that 66% of Europe’s airports expect flight delays to increase well into summer — that’s a two-thirds of European airports.

Jet2 explained reason for current travel chaos mentioning elephant in the room, Brexit. Jet2 said
covid layoffs is not the cause of staff shortages, the real reason is loss of hundreds of thousands of
EU workers that used to staff our travel and leisure industry.
Steve Heapy, CEO of Jet2, told the BBC. " Brexit has taken hundreds of thousand, if not millions of people
out of the employment market and that is undoubtedly having a impact.


Still, you have your English exceptionalism and your Blue passport to see you through these difficult times.

Are you sure it's Brexit ? There are people in the UK , remainers, who shout this about everything

https://www.independent.co.uk/travel/ne ... 74605.html