Travelling abroad this Easter break? High levels of sickness within airlines mean that might not go to plan.
Lesley Offley was due to fly to Austria with her family to celebrate her husband's 60th birthday on Tuesday."We've spent all morning unravelling all our travel plans for my husband's 60th birthday - first time we've attempted to travel since 2019 - and [I'm] completely fed up," she told the BBC.
"I think certainly the next month or two are going to be very difficult," he told the BBC's Wake Up To Money. According to the data firm Cirium, a total of 1,143 flights were cancelled to and from the UK in the week up to 3 April, with 382 of them grounded over the weekend. British Airways took the decision two weeks ago to remove some flights, mostly short-haul routes, from its schedules until May.
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