July 6th - What British Airways cancellation announcement means for you
Simon Calder's Independent Travel Podcast
The Independent
3.6 • 628 Ratings
🗓️ 7 July 2022
⏱️ 6 minutes
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Summary
BA is taking nearly five million seats off the market, drastically reducing availability and pushing up fares “It’s the right thing to do for our customers and our colleagues,” said a British Airways spokesperson on Wednesday.
They were describing the latest cull of summer flights: a further 10,300 short-haul departures between August and October, affecting at least one million passengers with existing bookings. I take a look at what it means and how you can find out if your flight is one of those affected.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the independent travel podcast for Wednesday the 6th of July, at which point you may be looking at your calendar, the date and thinking, hang on, what's going on there? |
| 0:16.0 | Well, I'd like to say that it is still Wednesday, the 6th of July, at least in Hawaii, in the US, and therefore |
| 0:24.4 | I am legitimately, I think, bringing this to you. It all ran out of control last night. I was trying |
| 0:31.1 | to sort out what was happening with British Airways, and there are many cancellations, and that's |
| 0:36.1 | what I'm going to be talking about today. |
| 0:38.0 | I'm actually at West Drayton. I've just been seeing what is happening with the cancellation. |
| 0:44.5 | So let me give you the story as it appears so far. |
| 0:49.0 | We learned overnight the British Airways has cancelled 10,300 flights those are all short-haul |
| 0:56.8 | departures between August and October they're going to I calculate effect at least |
| 1:01.7 | one million passengers with existing bookings and yes I have some skin in the game I've |
| 1:06.6 | got my flight all ready to go as well. |
| 1:17.6 | And I'm waiting to find out whether or not it will be taking off. |
| 1:20.0 | Either it will or it won't. |
| 1:24.6 | That's an extraordinarily bad Great Western region pun. |
| 1:26.4 | And I apologise for it. So a lot of people saying, |
| 1:27.8 | ah, British Airways are saying this now |
| 1:29.5 | because obviously the complete turmoil |
| 1:32.9 | into which the UK is disintegrating, |
| 1:36.2 | it won't be noticed. |
| 1:37.6 | Well, it was actually a good day to bury bad flight news, |
| 1:41.5 | but that wasn't why they did it. |
| 1:43.7 | It was kind of accidental. British |
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