Hello and welcome to the Independence Daily podcast with me Simon Calder, speaking to you towards the end of another long and bizarre day.

So what's been happening mostly is that Heathrow Airport has decided to impose a cap.

This is absolutely unprecedented.

I know I've used that word in pretty much every podcast

since the dawn of time or the dawn of COVID.

But really, this is extraordinary.

We, nine o'clock this morning,

had a conversation on the travel desk.

What's going to happen with Heathrow then?

Are we going to see more flight controls?

And I said, oh, look, they'll just be the odd day.

And then we'll get them.

But in general, no, I think we've got rid of quite enough flights already.

However, it wasn't like that. Within a couple of hours,

John Holland Kaye, he's the chief executive of Heathrow Airport, had put on open letter on the

Heathrow website addressed to travellers saying, we have to impose a cap by making this intervention now and the way I'm looking at it is 100k

passengers in any day we will be able to run a pretty good operation give confidence he says to

everyone who does travel through the airport, they

will have a safe and reliable journey and arrive at their destination with their bags.

Now, Mr. Holland Kay says, we recognise this will mean some summer journeys will either be moved

to another day, another airport, or be cancelled. We apologise to those whose travel plans are affected.

Our colleagues, he says, are going above and beyond to get as many passengers away as possible,

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