Hello and welcome to today's independent travel podcast with me, Simon Calder.

Well, it's another of those days when I go,

and that's because things are happening in the world of travel, which are simply unprecedented.

Let me tell you what today's is,, is. And that is, well,

it goes back to Tuesday's, which was Heathrow suddenly saying, we're going to put in a 100,000

passengers per day cap, no more than 100K per day for people leaving our lovely airport.

Airlines, you've got to stop selling tickets now until the 11th of September,

and you're also going to have to cancel some flights so we can get that number down to sensible levels.

The airlines have spent the last couple of days figuring out what they are going to do

in terms of cancellations and I've already managed to find, well, United, Air Canada, Air India,

Luftanzer have been canceling flights almost like there's no tomorrow. Over the 10 days I've charted from

Friday the 15th to Sunday the 24th of July there are going to be widespread cancellations

on many of those transatlantic flights. Air Lingus also canceling lots, so is SAS,

but they'd be canceling flights anyway

because their pilots are on strike.

Swiss to Zurich and to Geneva,

those are being cancelled.

But what's equally interesting is the airlines which aren't canceling any,

at least as far as I can see.

They are, they include Virgin Atlantic and its partner Delta.

American Airlines, one of the biggest airlines in terms of passenger numbers at Heathrow.

And in the Gulf, Qatar Airways, Etihad and Emirates.

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