Heathrow asks airlines to cancel 10% of flights today, as easyJet cuts summer schedule – business live

Sky News reports that airlines at Terminals 2 and 3 have been told to cancel 10% of their flights today as they try to get through a huge amount of luggage.

Hundreds of passengers were left waiting for over three hours over the weekend to get their luggage back.

If airlines consolidate their flights at Heathrow, they will be able to move passengers on to other flights to make sure they get away.

It's up to carriers to decide if they'll comply with the request.

The airport has asked airlines to cancel 10% of flights.

Some flights should be canceled to reduce the disruptions.

“We apologise unreservedly for the disruption passengers have faced over the course of this weekend.

“The technical issues affecting baggage systems have led to us making the decision to request airlines operating in Terminals 2 and 3 to consolidate their schedules on Monday 20th June.

BREAKING: A Heathrow spokesperson says the airport has requested airlines take 10% out of their schedules today across Terminals 2 & 3 "in order to help the operation".https://t.co/ajrbw6nutK

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It's time for a brief recap.

UK passengers continued to be hit by travel chaos as airports asked airlines to cut flights due to a pile-up of baggage and easyJet slashed its summer schedule just hours before a rail strike.

As it tries to get to grips with a mountain of luggage, Heathrow requested that airlines cut 10% of capacity.

There is a spokeswoman for the airport.

“We apologise unreservedly for the disruption passengers have faced over the course of this weekend.

“The technical issues affecting baggage systems have led to us making the decision to request airlines operating in Terminals 2 and 3 to consolidate their schedules on Monday June 20.

“This will enable us to minimise ongoing impact and we ask that all passengers check with their airlines for the latest information.”

Up to 5000 passengers have been affected by the cancellation of around 30 flights at the airport.

Some easyJet passengers will be told that their summer flights have been canceled, as the budget airline cuts capacity in order to avoid more last-minute cancellation.

Around 11,000 flights could be cut due to EasyJet's plan to only operate 90 percent of its capacity over the next three months.

Due to staff shortages, London Gatwick and Amsterdam's Schiphol have been forced to limit flights.

EasyJet said it expected most customers to be able to rebook on to alternative flights, many of which would be on the same day as they originally planned to travel.

The cost of living strike by security staff led to the cancellation of flights in the Belgian capital.

The cost of diesel and petrol went to new record highs over the weekend.

The UK faces its biggest rail strikes since the 1990s after last-minute talks failed to resolve the dispute over pay, jobs and conditions.

There will be widespread disruption as 40,000 members of the Rail, Maritime and Transport union go on strike on Tuesday.

There is a dispute over pay and pensions.

Millions of people will face a week of canceled trains because only one in five trains will operate on strike days.

No 10 agreed that the rail strike would be difficult for commuters. The PM has a spokesman.

For those that have no choice but to come in it will be extremely difficult tomorrow and I think the public will understandably want to know why they are being put in this position.

We believe we are seeking to offer a fair and reasonable pay rise and modernise the railway services for the long term, and we need to get rid of some of these outdated rules and procedures, some of which have not been updated for decades and which don’t serve the public.

The latest is here.

The copper price fell to its lowest level this year due to fears of a global recession.

The British stock market rebounded from last Friday's three-month low, with the benchmark index up 90 points or 1.3%.

The pound is only marginally higher against the US dollar.

Catherine Mann warned that a weaker pound could cause inflation.

In Germany, factories have hiked their prices at the fastest rate on record, due to increases in the cost of energy, industrial gas and other commodities.

British manufacturers want the Treasury to provide more support as they face rising prices and struggle to hire staff.

House prices in Great Britain are likely to start falling during the next few months as five interest rate rises and a worsening cost of living crisis finally start to put the brakes on the property market.

The Bank of England said today that they will no longer have to check if a homeowner can afford a mortgage.

New measures have been announced by the UK energy regulator to protect customers' money and stop energy suppliers from using some of their cash like an interest-free company credit card.

Primark is going to trial a click-and-collect service in the UK. The prices are going to go up.

The rail strike news is here.

Business, economics and the financial markets will be the topics of discussion tomorrow.

The UK's biggest rail strike in 30 years is to go ahead from tomorrow after last ditch talks failed to resolve a dispute over pay.

The assistant general secretary of the rail union warned his members this morning that they would have to fight for a long time.

We have the details on our Politics Live blog.

BAL PA says its pilots have voted to accept the revised offer of the airline.

That is reported by BAL PA.

“Following the intense negotiations Ryanair put forward a revised offer. BALPA members were balloted and voted to accept the offer,”

A lot of the disruption experienced by the likes of EasyJet and BA has been avoided by the company. The Spanish based cabin crew voted to go on strike for three days in June and July.

The Spanish unions are pushing for salary increases as a result of the coronaviruses outbreak.

Bank of England policymaker Catherine Mann has called for interest rates to be raised more quickly to stop the weak pound driving up inflation.

The weakness of the UK currency is making imports more expensive.

With the US and eurozone central banks likely to increase borrowing costs, the pound would face additional depreciation pressure.

Mann was one of three policymakers who voted to raise interest rates from 1% to 1.5% last week, but were outvoted in favor of a smaller rise to 1%.

Mann said that UK borrowing costs should be raised to support the pound, and then lowered to support the economy as inflation pressures faded.

She says something.

I voted for a 50 basis point increase at the last MPC meeting. In my view, a more robust policy move, based on both domestic conjuncture and commensurate with the global factor, reduces the risk that domestic inflation already embedded is further boosted by inflation imported via a Sterling depreciation.

I open the door to a policy rate reversal in the medium term when the domestic supports to demand fade and when weakness in external sources of demand bite. In my view this monetary policy path supports an inflation-output combination superior to that of the historical reaction.

The pound hit a one-year low against the euro and a two-year low against the US dollar. The cost of holidaying abroad has gone up due to that.

Up to 5000 passengers have been affected by the technical issues affecting baggage at the airport.

British Airways said it had made a small number of cancelations as a result of the airport requesting it.

The majority of customers will be re-accommodated on new flights. There's more here.

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easyJet can't give an exact number of flights it will cancel this summer, but it will most likely run about 90 percent of the flights it offered in summer 2019.

Between July and September, it hopes to reach 98% of pre-covid flight capacity.

It's possible that about 10,000 easyJet flights could be scrapped.

The number of travellers in April and May this year was seven times the level in 2021.

The whole story is here.

The staff shortages that caused EasyJet to cut flights this summer were caused by the decision to leave the European Union.

The airline received a lot of applications but was not able to accommodate all of the EU workers it had before the Pandemic.

My colleague talks about it.

The airline’s executives assured that they did not intend to raise prices as a result of the cancelled flights – likely to result in higher demand for fewer seats.

They also said that while the airline was not struggling to hire staff, it had recently turned down about 8,000 applications from EU nationals who were no longer eligible to work for the company in the UK due to Brexit.

“Pre-pandemic we turned down probably about 2% of people for for nationality reasons … and that number is [now] about 35-40%. So, of course the pool is smaller,” Lundgren said.

The process of getting an official crew identification card is now taking 14 weeks instead of 10, according to EasyJet.

Lundgren speaks.

“They’re fully trained, just basically waiting for the IDs to come through.

So it’s more that they’ve been slow to get people into the system, and not so much the fact that we’ve been struggling to recruit. And that has continued to be an ongoing challenge.”

The editor of a magazine. easyJet has to play by the rules as it cancels flights this summer.

“EasyJet has caused chaos and distress for passengers over several weeks with a constant stream of last-minute cancellations.

“While reducing the number of flights it operates may be the most sensible option in delivering a more reliable service over the summer, it yet again leaves passengers panicking about whether their flight or holiday will be cancelled or delayed.

“The summer holidays are just around the corner, so easyJet must immediately provide clarity on which flights are being cut.

“Crucially, it needs to start playing by the rules and rerouting its customers, including on flights with other carriers.

“That’s the legal requirement and the very least the airline can do for customers it has left in a mess.”

Some customers were put in an "awful situation" in the travel chaos, and their rights were blatantly violated by airlines.

Drivers who use their cars to escape this week's UK rail strike will have to pay record prices to fill up at the pumps.

The average price of a gallon of petrol rose to 188.7p on Sunday, extending a run spurred by surging oil prices.

The price of diesel hit a new high of 196.1p a gallon.

The cost of filling up a 55 liter family car with petrol and diesel has gone up by over a hundred dollars.

Motorists were told last week that the wholesale price of petrol had stopped rising.

Simon Williams spoke about fuel.

“This is yet more bad news for drivers, particularly with this week’s rail strikes leaving many people with no choice but to use their cars. But looking at the wholesale cost of petrol, which has settled due the oil price falling, petrol pump prices really should not continue to rise, if anything they ought to begin reducing. Sadly though, diesel looks destined to head rapidly towards an average of £2 a litre which would make a full tank £110.

“We strongly hope the extent of the rises seen in both fuels will finally force the Government to take action to ease the burden on drivers by further cutting duty or lessening the punishing impact of VAT which currently accounts for 31p a litre on petrol – 6p more than it was before the Ukraine war began.”

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Some 90 flights are expected to be affected today after airlines were asked to scale back their schedules.

He's writing.

The grounded departures range from a Loganair ATR72 commuter aircraft serving the Isle of Man to an Emirates Airbus A380 seating almost 500 passengers to Dubai.

Virgin Atlantic has cancelled at least three transatlantic flights, including departures to New York and Los Angeles.

British Airways, which operates some flights from Terminal 3 as well as its main hub at Terminal 5, said it had made “a small number of cancellations”.

All three departures that BA had originally planned to Toulouse are grounded, along with two of the four Marseille flights.

Thousands of passengers will have their flights canceled on Monday at the airport.

Sky News reports that airlines at Terminals 2 and 3 have been told to cancel 10% of their flights today as they try to get through a huge amount of luggage.

Hundreds of passengers were left waiting for over three hours over the weekend to get their luggage back.

If airlines consolidate their flights at Heathrow, they will be able to move passengers on to other flights to make sure they get away.

It's up to carriers to decide if they'll comply with the request.

The airport has asked airlines to cancel 10% of flights.

Some flights should be canceled to reduce the disruptions.

“We apologise unreservedly for the disruption passengers have faced over the course of this weekend.

“The technical issues affecting baggage systems have led to us making the decision to request airlines operating in Terminals 2 and 3 to consolidate their schedules on Monday 20th June.

A day of strikes in Belgium over the cost of living forced the cancellation of all flights in and out of the airport on Monday.

The unions expected a lot of people to attend the protest.

Security personnel were taking part in the industrial action that prevented passenger flights from leaving the airport.

The demonstration is expected to cause a lot of traffic disruption in and around the city, but will also affect public transport.

The cost of energy and food went up in June as a result of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

Alexander De Croo said that Belgian workers were better protected than their counterparts in other EU countries because their wages were linked to inflation.

Sales tax on gas, electricity and fuel will be reduced until the end of the year, according to a government spokesman.

Concerns over the strength of the recovery were added to by a decrease in activity in the construction sector.

The construction sector in the eurozone decreased in April compared to the previous month.

Civil engineering work dropped the most.

The stock markets in emerging economies have fallen to their lowest level in over a month.

The index for emerging market stocks has fallen by 0.4%.

Emerging market assets are negatively impacted by higher rates in the developed world and a stronger dollar.

Over the course of the year, emerging market stocks have lost over 18% of their value.

Despite global recession worries, the blue-chip index in the City has gained 40 points.

The Footsie gained 0.6% from Friday night's low. Some of the risers are banks, oil companies and travel companies

There is speculation that rising interest rates could puncture the housing bubble.

Five interest rate rises and a worsening cost of living crisis are predicted to cause prices to fall from their record highs, according to Rightmove.

Slow growth is thought to mean less demand for commodities.

Ms. Streeter is a senior investment and markets analyst for the company.

Investors sense there is trouble ahead for the world economy, given that the priority of the powerful US Federal Reserve is to stamp out the flames of inflation even if that means extinguishing growth.

Although US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said yesterday a recession is not at all inevitable, she cautioned that the economy would slow, indicating that the price spiral will take time to reverse, given that inflation’s causes were global.

Uncertainty about the global outlook is also weighing on miners and commodity firms with Rio Tinto, Anglo American, Antofagasta and Glencore among the fallers in early trade on the FTSE 100.

The number of flights that will be scrapped is not known.

The figure for the number or proportion of flights that will be canceled was not given by the CEO.

“I can’t tell you how many flights will be impacted.”

“It would be misleading for me to give any numbers today because we simply don’t know.”

The chief secretary to the Treasury has said that workers can't expect a pay rise that will match inflation.

The Today programme was told that this was a message for people in both the private and public sectors.

In the current landscape of inflation at 9, bordering 10%, it is not a sustainable expectation that inflation can be matched in pay offers.

That is not something that’s going to be seen - across, frankly, the private sector as well as the public sector.

We cannot get into a world where we are chasing inflation expectations in that way because that is the surest way I can think of to bake in the repeat of the 1970s which this government is determined to prevent.

Andy Sparrow has additional information.

The governor of the Bank of England was rebuked by 10 Downing Street for suggesting that workers shouldn't ask for big pay rises.

The call for wage restraint was made four months ago.

Adding to the UK's transport chaos is the threat of the train strikes stretching into the autumn.

The public may have to accept disruption beyond the summer according to Mick Lynch, general secretary of the Rail, Maritime and Transport union.

There isn't a lot of evidence that it's going to go any other way.

“The TSSA [union], which represents about 6000 Network Rail staff is balloting, Aslef, which along with us organises train drivers has about six or seven ballots being returned on July 11 – just a few weeks away.

If there’s no settlement I can only see this escalating.”