British Airways suspends sales of short-haul tickets from Heathrow
, as it said it would limit the number of passengers departing each day to 100,000 - 4,000 fewer than previously scheduled.As BA is the largest airline at Heathrow it is affected by the limit more than other carriers.
Stopping selling some tickets from Britain's biggest airport in the lucrative summer peak, when demand is strong, is not something you'd normally expect an airline to be doing.The decision follows Heathrow's extraordinary decision to limit traffic to a level the system can cope with, given ongoing resourcing challenges.
The decision is meant to prevent last-minute bookings. And it should leave some leeway in the system for where rebooking is needed.But it will limit passengers' last-minute options at a time when capacity has been squeezed and many prices have risen.from its April-to-October schedule in response to staffing problems., despite facing what it called a "challenging" environment at Heathrow Airport.
between Ryanair and Heathrow, after the airline said airports had not recruited enough staff to cater for the rebound in travellers, saying they "had one job to do"."Airports don't provide ground handling, that's provided by the airlines themselves. So this is like accusing us of not having enough pilots," said Heathrow's chief executive John Holland-Kaye.
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