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Passengers in a long queue for check in outside Terminal 1 at Manchester Airport. Reuters
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Travellers queue Heathrow Airport. Long queues, cancellations and luggage problems at Heathrow and other airports have plagued the travel sector’s comeback from coronavirus restrictions. AP
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Suitcases uncollected at Heathrow's Terminal 3 baggage reclaim. AFP
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British Airways will cancel flights for more than 100,000 summer holidaymakers in an attempt to avoid a repeat of the recent travel chaos at UK airports. Reuters
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The cancelled flights represent 14 per cent of those scheduled from Gatwick and nearly 7 per cent from Heathrow, pictured. Reuters
More than 76,000 seats are being cancelled from Heathrow and 29,400 from Gatwick on flights to more than 70 destinations including Malaga, Ibiza, Palma, Faro and Athens, according to 'The Daily Telegraph'. Salman S Chaudhry / Twitter
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Travellers queue to check in for their flights at Gatwick. EPA
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Birmingham Airport was the worst in the UK for flight delays last year, analysis shows. Flights were an average of 12 minutes and 24 seconds late taking off from the West Midlands airport in 2021, Civil Aviation Authority data seen by PA showed. PA
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Left luggage at baggage reclaim in Heathrow. PA
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Long queues at Gatwick Airport. UK travellers face continuing disruption. EPA
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Passengers in a long queue for check in outside Terminal 1 at Manchester Airport. Reuters
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Travellers queue Heathrow Airport. Long queues, cancellations and luggage problems at Heathrow and other airports have plagued the travel sector’s comeback from coronavirus restrictions. AP
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Suitcases uncollected at Heathrow's Terminal 3 baggage reclaim. AFP
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British Airways will cancel flights for more than 100,000 summer holidaymakers in an attempt to avoid a repeat of the recent travel chaos at UK airports. Reuters
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The cancelled flights represent 14 per cent of those scheduled from Gatwick and nearly 7 per cent from Heathrow, pictured. Reuters
More than 76,000 seats are being cancelled from Heathrow and 29,400 from Gatwick on flights to more than 70 destinations including Malaga, Ibiza, Palma, Faro and Athens, according to 'The Daily Telegraph'. Salman S Chaudhry / Twitter
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Travellers queue to check in for their flights at Gatwick. EPA
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Birmingham Airport was the worst in the UK for flight delays last year, analysis shows. Flights were an average of 12 minutes and 24 seconds late taking off from the West Midlands airport in 2021, Civil Aviation Authority data seen by PA showed. PA
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Left luggage at baggage reclaim in Heathrow. PA
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Long queues at Gatwick Airport. UK travellers face continuing disruption. EPA
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Passengers in a long queue for check in outside Terminal 1 at Manchester Airport. Reuters
Heathrow Airport imposes passenger cap and tells airlines to stop selling summer tickets
Move to cause at least 4,000 plane seats to be scrapped daily to ease congestion in terminals
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