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Flight connections, baggage stress, tropical islands and cut-price dollars

Heathrow ‘stretched’ but airport pledges to build up resources as quickly as possible

Heathrow and Gatwick cancellations a result of staff shortages because of Covid

On May 2, 1981, the Aer-Lingus 164 flight was five minutes from landing in Heathrow when a 55-year-old Australian monk Laurence Downey went to the toilet and doused himself in petrol

Jean-Paul Sartre wrote that “hell is other people”. Had he been alive yesterday, he would have been more specific — truly hell is other people trapped in the baggage hall at Heathrow. But I’m getting ahead of myself. The hellscape actually began a week before that when a perfect storm…

Just Stop Oil campaign, calling for moratorium on new fossil fuel projects, continues after weekend of action

Easter travel plans have been thrown into chaos for tens of thousands of people following widespread flight cancellations and delays at airports, for Eurostar services and ferries from Dover.

British Airways alone has so far cancelled almost 90 flights to and from Heathrow this morning following shortages due to staff coming down with Covid

EasyJet has cancelled scores of flights leaving some passengers stranded amid travel chaos at some of Britain’s biggest airports, with the airline blaming the disruption on staff shortages due to Covid.