After midnight on Monday morning at London Heathrow, a succession of planes touched down. The tardy half-dozen were British Airways Airbus jets arriving well behind schedule from Dublin, Glasgow, Naples, Pisa, Porto and Prague. As the Heathrow stragglers sorted out their onward travel arrangements and possibly grimaced at the cost, across at Gatwick, thousands of easyJet passengers were still waiting for the chance to fly. Monday’s cancellations by Britain’s biggest budget airline at its main base, London Gatwick, topped 40. British Airways and easyJet are united in one characteristic: having their main bases at airports bursting at the air-traffic control seams.

Source: Irish Independent June 15, 2023 17:47 UTC