London’s Heathrow Airport is capping the number of passengers allowed to fly out, citing insufficient resources
Heathrow Airport in London has ordered airlines to stop selling tickets for the rest of the summer, insisting it must limit itself to 100,000 passengers per day until September 11, an open letter to passengers on Tuesday stated.
The airport’s CEO, John Holland-Kaye, wrote that “as departing passenger numbers have regularly exceeded 100,000 a day, we have started to see periods when service drops to a level that is not acceptable.” Acknowledging massive flight delays, failures in baggage transportation, and last-minute cancellations, he blamed there being too many passengers and not enough employees.
“At Heathrow, we have seen 40 years of passenger growth in just four months,” Holland-Kaye stated in…
