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Friday, 17 June 2022

BBC News

• Gatwick cuts summer flights after staff shortagesThe airport says it will lead to a more reliable service, after a wave of cancellations and delays.

Department for Transport

• Aviation resilience planningStrategic risk group set up to identify possible interventions to alleviate flight disruptions and improve the resilience of the aviation sector.

Financial Times

• Air Force One: how Boeing's prestige project became its albatrossAerospace group reworked presidential aircraft after former president's tweets, but then took $1.1bn in charges
• Gatwick to cancel hundreds of flights over staff shortagesLondon airport to scale back operations in July and August in effort to tame summer airline chaos

The Guardian

• Gatwick reduces summer capacity to prevent repeat of jubilee chaosNumber of flights in August will be below pre-pandemic levels to ensure those on sale are ‘deliverable’Gatwick airport will reduce its summer capacity to ward off potential chaos, after dozens of last-minute cancellations wrecked the travel plans of holidaymakers over the platinum jubilee and half-term holiday.London’s second busiest airport will limit the number of daily take-offs and landings to 850 in August – about 50 more than the average in early June, but more than 10% below its pre-pandemic maximum. Continue reading...

Times Online

• Gatwick set to cancel one in ten flights during summer holidays [subscription]Up to one in ten flights will be cancelled at Gatwick airport over the school holidays under plans designed to prevent further chaos for holidaymakers.

City AM

• Letters: Travel travelling in the wrong direction[Re: Brexit not cause of travel chaos, says UK minister, June 14] The airline industry has had a rough time this year, often being unable to fully capitalise on the rolling back of travel restrictions and consumer optimism about taking to the skies. While staff cuts, perhaps a necessity due to the pandemic, have shrunk [...] The post Letters: Travel travelling in the wrong direction appeared first on CityAM.

Bristol Live

• Bristol Airport passengers turn South Bristol streets into "giant unregulated car park"Local councillor criticises bosses for second time in six weeks