easyJet and British Airways flight cancellations – latest travel updates

Following days of queue chaos and deserted baggage, passengers at Manchester Airport this morning are reporting a smoother journey by check-in and safety.

“It took us approx one hour, from arriving on the airport at 5am, to get by safety at T2. It did get significantly busier as soon as we had joined the queue although. Nevertheless they do name you to skip the queues with an hour to go to your flight. Don’t panic!” wrote Charl Adams on Twitter.

“Effectively my expertise this morning was good in comparison with what I’ve been seeing on-line and so on about #ManchesterAirport – 10 minutes max to get by safety. Effectively organised. Hardly any queue,” wrote Oli Makin.

In the meantime, Claire Coy timed her journey by the queues, sharing a screenshot of the outcome: 21 minutes, 37 seconds and 92 milliseconds.

“After the latest media, I used to be very frightened about travelling @ManAirport terminal 1, however solely 21 minutes from automotive park, by bag drop and safety. Employees wonderful and really useful. Nice service,” she mentioned.

After Spanish tourism officers retracted an announcement opening as much as unvaccinated British guests with a pre-departure take a look at, there stays a method for unjabbed UK travellers to enter Spain: proof of latest restoration from Covid-19.

However the guidelines are complicated. The traveller will need to have a restoration certificates “issued by the official authorities”. The take a look at will need to have been “carried out by certified personnel” – so a self-test outcome is not going to be legitimate.

Official certificates are considered being legitimate for 11 to 180 days after the primary optimistic diagnostic take a look at outcome.

In a unprecedented reversal of an earlier announcement, the Spanish vacationer board in London final night time withdrew a declaration that the nation was opening as much as unvaccinated British guests.

On Wednesday morning the vacationer board instructed press that Spain had opened as much as all UK travellers with instant impact, saying unjabbed guests would be capable to enter with a adverse pre-departure take a look at.

However eight hours later travellers have been instructed this was incorrect, and that the announcement resulted from an error of interpretation of the official state bulletin.

British Airways and easyJet have each been compelled to axe numerous flights to and from the UK at the moment.

BA’s cancellations are all home and short-haul: routes between Heathrow and Scotland are affected, as are Germany, Netherlands and Sweden companies from Heathrow, and a few Italian cities.

In the meantime easyJet has cancelled Gatwick flights to some Italian and French cities, together with some short-haul routes from Luton, Bristol, Manchester, Belfast and Edinburgh.

Learn the total checklist of cancellations right here:

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