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Widespread cancellations: Ben Gurion International Airport in Tel Aviv (Simon Calder) More airlines are grounding flights to and from Israel, Jordan and Lebanon as tension in the Middle East grows.
This update comes as British Airways cancelled a further 34 domestic and European flights to and from London Heathrow as the airline recovers from Monday’s air-traffic control shutdown.
British Airways has cancelled its flight from Gatwick to St Lucia and Georgetown in Guyana on Monday. BA says it will be monitoring the situation and only operating when it is safe to do so.
Then the wholesale cancellations began, with British Airways alone grounding more than 100 domestic and European departures to and from their hub. Most were destinations such as Amsterdam and ...
Despite a lack of passengers, regulations regarding flight slots initially compelled British airlines to fly empty planes to European airports to avoid losing their slots. [36] Fuel prices dropping (due to an oil price war between Russia and Saudi Arabia ) by around a quarter could not compensate for the fall in demand.
Earnings decline due to the pandemic, and Bangkok Airways has asked for government assistance. [97] British Airways CEO Álex Cruz informed staff that BA was facing a crisis worse than the aftermath of the SARS outbreak or the 9/11 attacks, and wrote that "jobs would be lost – perhaps for a short term, perhaps longer term."
A systems outage has forced British Airways to cancel at least 60 flights, stranding thousands of passengers and leaving many more without their luggage.
The Air Passengers Rights Regulation 2004 [1] [2] (Regulation (EC) No 261/2004) is a regulation in EU law establishing common rules on compensation and assistance to passengers in the event of denied boarding, flight cancellations, or long delays of flights.