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people in the UK have faced months of travel chaos at airports this year, with plenty of delays, cancellations and luggage going missing or stuck in huge piles due to staff shortages.
Adding to the disruption, British Airways has reportedly canceled over 650 flights from London Heathrow Airport and Gatwick Airport.
This means over 76,000 seats will be scrapped from Heathrow flights, as well as a further 29,400 from Gatwick flights.
The move is expected to be exempt from the usual rules that mean airlines can cancel flights without being penalized for not using their airport slot in a one-off “amnesty” by ministers. This amnesty is due to end on Friday 8 July 2022.
However, it means that hundreds of thousands of passengers will mess up their summer holiday plans if they book with British Airways.
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A BA spokesman said: “As the entire aviation industry continues to face the most challenging period in its history, it has unfortunately become necessary to make some further redundancies.
“We are contacting customers to apologize and offer to rebook them or give them a full refund.”
Here is the full list of flights and destinations that will be affected by the cancellation.
Which July BA flights have been canceled from Heathrow and Gatwick?
On Tuesday 5 July 2022, British Airways canceled over 100 flights from Heathrow Airport.
According to The Independent, 20 domestic flights have been suspended and a further 110 flights to Europe have also been cancelled.
Over 100 BA flights canceled on 5 July 2022 (Gareth Fuller/PA)
/ PA wire
Passengers are believed to have been warned in advance of these canceled flights. They are also entitled to new flights on the original day of departure if there are seats available on other airlines – including BA competitors.
If passengers were given less than two weeks’ notice of the cancellation, they are also entitled to monetary compensation.
BA domestic flights from Heathrow airport cancelled
- Aberdeen
- Belfast City
- Edinburgh
- Glasgow
- Inverness
- Jersey
- Manchester
- Newcastle
Cancellation of international BA flights from Heathrow Airport
- Athens
- Barcelona
- Basel
- Berlin
- Bologna
- Brussels
- Bucharest
- Budapest
- Copenhagen
- Dublin
- Dusseldorf
- Frankfurt
- Geneva
- Gothenburg
- Hamburg
- Istanbul
- Lisbon
- Marseille
- Milan Linate
- Milan Malpensa
- Munich
- OK
- Paris CDG
- Prague
- Rome
- Stockholm
- Tirana
- Toulouse
- Venice
- Vienna
- Zurich
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