Traffic chaos in Britain due to transport strike: Cancellations and delays on flights and trains

Except for cancellations and delays on flights or trainsthe disturbance in the British means of transport worsened today with London Underground strike.

The RMT union has announced a 24-hour strike today and closed several subway stations in the British capital’s network.

The London Transport Company (TfL) warned of “serious problems” and advised network users to avoid traveling today and until 08:00 local time tomorrow, Tuesday.

Thousands of passengers were struggling to return to Britain after a prolonged weekend for Queen Elizabeth’s Jubilee Jubilee due to hundreds of flight cancellations by Easyjet, British Airways, Tui and Wizz Air, according to British media.

“Unfortunately due to the difficult business environment about 37 flights were canceled,” commented EasyJet today, which has already canceled hundreds of flights in recent weeks.

Representative of British Airways He also stressed that the flights that were not scheduled were scheduled to be canceled by the British company and that the passengers had been informed long ago.

The company is currently conducting “the largest recruitment campaign in its history,” he added.

The aviation sector is facing a severe shortage of staffafter the dismissal of thousands at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, which caused the suspension of air traffic for months and then a sharp reduction in flights due to health restrictive measures.

At this time fights for re-employment and to cope with a strong new rise in travel demand now that health restrictions have been lifted.

Travelers who used the Eurostar for the prolonged Jubilee weekend also faced significant delays. The railway company said yesterday, Sunday, in a Twitter message that “due to a supply problem in the Paris suburbs, all our trains departing or bound for Paris are subject to serious delays and cancellations”, urging passengers to postpone the trip if possible their.

The company had already apologized last week for the long queues and delays.

The transport sector was one of the worst hit by the pandemic, as air traffic was almost disrupted for months and the number of subway or train passengers in Britain dropped sharply.

Airlines and political officials are blaming each other for the current chaos at airports.

Last week the Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Dominique Raab he mainly blamed the companies for “not being well prepared” for the resumption of demand.

The aviation sector, for its part, accuses the authorities of not speeding up the ratification process for new aircraft crews or airport staff.

The problem is expected to last for “a large part of the summer season” in Britain, as in the rest of Europe, the organization of European airlines Airlines for Europe warned in a memo.