Warning to EasyJet passengers going to Spain and Greece as ‘10,000 flights’ set to be cancelled

More than a million passengers hoping to get away this summer have been told to prepare for disappointment as EasyJet is expected to axe ‘10,000 flights’.

While the airline has already cancelled hundreds of flights across June, a fresh wave of cancellations – likely to include flights to holiday hotspots like Greece and Spain – will reportedly take place during July, August and September.

According to The Telegraph, around 10,000 flights are expected to be cancelled, foiling the holiday plans of an estimated 1.5 million customers.

EasyJet’s chief executive Johan Lundgren is said to still be working through precisely how many flights would be affected.

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Lundgren said in a statement: “Coupled with airport caps, we are taking pre-emptive actions to increase resilience over the balance of summer.

“This includes a range of further flight consolidations in the affected airports, giving advance notice to customers and we expect the vast majority to be rebooked on alternative flights within twenty-four hours.

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“Delivering a safe and reliable operation for our customers in this challenging environment is EasyJet’s highest priority and we are sorry that for some customers we have not been able to deliver the service they have come to expect from us.”

He went on to say he believes this is the right action for the company to take, ‘so we can deliver for all of our customers over the peak summer period in this challenging environment’.

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The budget airline had already foiled the holiday plans of thousands with around forty flights a day to-and-from the UK – a total of around 400 – being cancelled across June.

EasyJet and other airlines including TUI have blamed the ongoing cancellations and disruption on staffing issues both in the air and on the ground.

They say this is a result of having to furlough and let go thousands of workers during the pandemic, many of whom went on to get new jobs with other companies.

Airports have also fallen victim to staffing issues in the last few months, with Manchester Airport recently pushing a ‘major recruitment drive‘ to rectify the delays and disruption.