I have no idea as, happily, not travelling at the moment. Some famiy heading to MAD on Saturday. As they are on BA, they hope that Iberia will be on standby.
As usual a govt minister has responded to the age old tabloid pressure to be seen 'doing something'.
Grant Shapps, criticised travel firms, saying they had “seriously oversold flights and holidays relative to their capacity to deliver”.
Shapps, in a statement issued late on Tuesday, said he had called for a meeting with airports, airlines and ground handlers to “find out what’s gone wrong and how they are planning to end the current run of cancellations and delays”.
Shapps added: “This must not happen again and all efforts should be directed at there being no repeat of this over the summer.”
As the roots of these delays are tied up with two years of Pandemic and many years of airline and airport management and the fabulous wages that are paid ... it makes matters a little difficult. Could the carriers selling seats to a public keen to return to normal life by the govt, have known what was going to happen 3 or 6 months down the line?
I am not trying to let them off the hook. I have also had the problem of finding that a car hire company had no cars in the garage, with families standing around demanding to get their pre-payments back..
Saw this Tweet today:
@closefrank
The jubilee baton relay - is that the one where the Transport Minister passes the buck to the airlines, who blame the lack of check in staff, who blame airport management, who blame the government?