British Airline British Airways announced On Monday, thousands of flights to and from Heathrow airport, the busiest in London and the United Kingdom, were canceled in an effort to reduce the many inconveniences caused by the lack of staff, the region hit by the pandemic due to redundancies recorded with the crisis. British Airways has announced plans to cancel 629 Flights between now and October 29 will be reduced by 8 percent for winter flight programming that lasts until the end of March: this decision is expected to lead to the cancellation of about 10 thousand flights.

However, British Airways reassured passengers that alternative flights or refunds were available on most of the affected routes.

British Airways had already cut tens of thousands of other flights in recent weeks, temporarily in early August Suspended Ticket sales for short-haul flights departing from Heathrow Airport. The latter was decided instead to limit Until September 11, the maximum number of people departing from the airport is 100 thousand per day. The main reason for all these measures is the lack of staff to work at full capacity due to the pandemic.