Heathrow Airport puts ‘ceiling’ on passengers – Up to 100,000 people can depart per day

To set an upper limit on the number of passengers departing from it at 100,000 per day decided the Heathrow Airport of London. The aim of his address is to ease the disruption to air travel caused by the recovery in demand.

Airlines at the busiest airport Britain’s airlines have already responded to a government call to reduce capacity, but Heathrow management said they must go further.

“Airlines, baggage handlers and the airport can collectively serve 100,000 passengers departing from Heathrow, a number that has been exceeded several times in recent weeks resulting in unacceptable levels of service,” the airport said.

“Some airlines have taken significant action, but others have not, and we believe further action is needed now to ensure passengers have a safe and reliable journey,” Heathrow chief executive John Holland-Kaye said in an open statement. letter he addressed to passengers today.

“We have therefore taken the difficult decision to introduce a cap with effect from 12 July to 11 Septemberhe pointed out as reported by the Athens News Agency.

“We recognize that this will mean that some summer trips will either be moved to another day, to another airport or canceled and we apologize to those whose travel plans are affected,” he added.

Holland-Kay said forecasts show that even with this measure, daily summer departure seats will average 104,000, 4,000 above the cap.

It said that an average of 1,500 of those 4,000 seats have been sold to customers and that it is asking its partners airlines to stop selling summer tickets in order to limit the impact on passengers.