All the BA flights cancelled as we speak from UK airports

British Airways has cancelled 124 short-haul flights to and from its major base, London Heathrow airport on Thursday.

The Independent calculates 19 home flights have been grounded, together with two round-trips from Heathrow to Aberdeen, Edinburgh and Glasgow.

At least 106 worldwide flights are cancelled, together with 4 round-trips from Heathrow to Amsterdam, plus vacation flights to Faro, Ibiza and Madeira.

BA says virtually the entire flight cancellations are pre-planned and that passengers got advance discover – with some departures taken out of the schedules many weeks forward.

While airways don’t disclose passenger hundreds on the grounds of business sensitivity, if a median of 80 individuals had been booked on every flight on the level of cancellation then virtually 10,000 travellers could have been affected by as we speak’s groundings.

British Airways departures from Heathrow

Domestic: 9 outbound, 18 sectors in whole

International: 53 outbound, 106 sectors in whole

British Airways has introduced in plane and crew from its sister airline Iberia and Oneworld companion Finnair to attempt to stabilise its schedules over the summer season.

Besides the cancellations by BA, the UK’s greatest finances airline, easyJet, has been cancelling dozens of flights daily – notably to and from its largest base, London Gatwick. On Thursday, easyjet has cancelled at the very least 60 flights to, from and throughout the UK.

All passengers whose flights are cancelled are entitled to new flights on the unique day of departure if a seat is obtainable, even whether it is on a rival airline.

If the cancellation was introduced lower than two weeks upfront and the airline is accountable, they’re additionally due money compensation.