Tag: Airports

Holidaymakers jetting off today face airport chaos, with delays to flights and queues stretching outside the terminals. Airports laid off almost half their staff during the pandemic and failed to replace them in time.

Airports and airlines in the U.K. claim to be having the busiest weekend since the pandemic began, but continued restrictions on travel mean this summer season will once again be far from normal for the industry.

The number of passengers travelling through U.K. airports fell by 223 million in 2020 because of travel restrictions, a decline of 75% from 2019.