In the latest meltdown at a major UK airport, Heathrow has asked airlines flying from Terminals 2 and 3 to cancel 10 per cent of their schedules for Monday due to mounting problems with its baggage handling.
An estimated 15,000 passengers on 90 flights will be affected. 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.
A spokesperson for the airline said: “We’re in contact with affected customers to apologise, advise them of their consumer rights and offer them alternative options, including a refund or rebooking.”
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Other cancellations identified by The Independent include:
- Aegean: Athens
- Aer Lingus: Dublin
- Air Canada: Toronto
- Air France: Paris
- Air India: Ahmedabad
- Eurowings: Cologne
- ITA: Rome
- KLM: Amsterdam
- Lufthansa: Frankfurt
- SAS: Copenhagen
- Swiss: Zurich
- TAP Portugal: Lisbon
The request came at the end of weekend in which the airport was beset with baggage problems.
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