Passengers booked on 240 easyJet flights to and from Gatwick over in next 10 days they say their flights are cancelled.
In the end of a week in which is the largest in Britain budget the airline has landed hundreds of flying, Independent learned that easyJet has made late decision cancel many more at its largest base, Gatwick.
Airline cutting 24 flights per day from Saturday 28 May to Monday 6 June inclusive. Many flights are heavily booked; in standard easyJet Airbus A320 seats 186 passengers; as well as Independent calculates that even with a conservative evaluate of 150 people booked on each of at least 36,000 passengers will be affected by the flight landing.
Cancellation for Saturday departures include key holiday links to Italy, Portugal and Spain – with both flights to Seville are suspended.
Flights to Agadir and Marrakech in Morocco was abolished.
full list of canceled round- trips for Saturday 28 May is:
- Seville (2)
- Reykjavik
- Belfast City
- Budapest Copenhagen
- Munich
- Funchal
- Agadir
- Valencia
- Cagliari
- Marrakesh
representative for easyJet said Independent: “Above next week we will operating about 1700 flights per day, with around quarter of these operating to Gatwick and back.
“We took decision make a pre-cancellation of about 24 Gatwick flights per day starting tomorrow May 28th through June 6th.
“We are very sorry for late notice of a little of these cancellations and inconveniences caused for customers have booked on these flights, however we believe it is necessary to provide a reliable service over this is busy period.
“Customers are informed from today and provided with in option rebook your flight or get a refund and can apply for compensation in line with regulations.”
standard put a cancel message out by easyJet encourages passengers to rebook their tickets on alternative easyJet flight or accept a refund or voucher.
One passenger whose flight on June 1 from Madeira to Gatwick said: “We had to rebook for on Monday, two days earlier than planned, and we were given separate seats despite fact we are travelling with our one-year-old.
“He currently sitting two rows away us! “
Independent told him that easyJet has strict obligations under European air passenger rights rules book a passenger on competing airline, if it is the only one way to take them to their destination on scheduled day of travel. There are departures on British Airways to Heathrow or Ryanair to Stansted on June 1, which easyJet has to pay for.
Airline also must compensation of £220 or, for flying over 1500 km, £350 per passenger due to cancellation of late notice. If all who were eligible would claim compensation the bill would be £10 million.
