The past two weeks have seen a surge in cancelled flights at European airports, culminating in highly visible cancellations at the weekend (4-5 June). The UK saw 4% of flights cancelled on Saturday 4th June, while the Netherlands saw cancellations rise to 11% on the same day.
Cancellations also rose from French and Spanish airports over last weekend, although this may simply have been the repercussions of cancellations elsewhere. While there is a discernible jump in cancellations of flights from Spanish airports, the proportion is still relatively low, peaking at 1.2% on 5th June, albeit that this is much higher than had been the case for most of May.
Airports and airlines involved have spoken of the shortage of staff and the time taken to bring new staff on board including getting them security cleared to be able to work at and move around all parts of the airport. Although airports are busy, it does not appear to be that the cause is an increased number of scheduled…
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