Uncertainty for many holidaymakers and air travelers given the already deteriorating situation at airports and airlines: After multiple flight cancellations by Eurowings over the weekend due to staff shortages, passengers on an AUA flight from London to Vienna on Monday also had to be grounded. Chaotic conditions at London Airport made this step necessary.
A lack of staff on board, bottlenecks on the ground and a simultaneous travel boom – airports worldwide are currently struggling with these problems, even before the peak summer season. A “Krone” reader, who was supposed to fly back to Vienna from London on Monday, also got the bad news late Sunday night: the flight had been canceled, although the web check-in had worked flawlessly just under an hour earlier, as he explains. .
London Airport is in chaos
The reason for the flight cancellation? Chaos at London airport. “There are currently handling issues in London, especially when dealing with baggage,” AUA spokeswoman Anna Pachinger told krone.at. To prevent the situation on the ground from escalating completely, all airlines have canceled flights to alleviate the situation.
Anyway, with the flight cancellation, “Krone” readers suffered a similar fate as hundreds of other travelers in Austria who were unable to take their Eurowings flight over the weekend. As reported, crew absenteeism and understaffing led to several cancellations, hundreds of people stranded at Salzburg airport and about 100 more at Innsbruck airport.
Thousands of flights canceled or delayed
The situation is extremely tense worldwide. There are also major problems at airports in the US at the moment, CNN reports. Due to bad weather, staff shortages and infrastructure problems, the major airlines are currently unable to cope with the volume of travel. More than 3,200 flights were canceled last weekend alone, and about 9,000 were unable to adhere to the flight plan and were delayed.
Source: Krone
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