Hello and welcome to the final independent travel podcast of the week from me Simon Calder.

And well, I'm just been counting up the cancellations of flights this week. We are certainly, I think,

in the past seven days looking at over 1,000 cancellations of short haul flights. Actually,

the biggest number is from British Airways. They've been averaging 120 per day. However,

those have been done some weeks ahead. And so unless like me, you delve around and try and find them, or perhaps like you,

you're very keen to get a flight and you suddenly think, hang on, why are there only three flights

from London to Geneva on that day? Normally there's about eight. Well, that would be because many of

them have been cancelled in advance by British Airways.

They're not selling tickets for them.

Anybody who was booked on them before the cancellations came in,

well, they're given plenty of notice and off they can do go to fix another flight.

But as I talked about yesterday, the problems at EasyJets are far worse from a

passenger welfare and general lack of stress position. There isn't much passenger welfare and there is a

great deal of stress going on. That's because EasyJet, which I calculate if you deem a cancellation that's at short notice

to be anything under about a couple of days of warning, well I think that they are looking

at maybe a total of 500 cancellations so far this week,

which is an awful lot for an airline.

Of course, EasyJet says, look, we have 1,700 flights a day.

So therefore, if some of them get cancelled, we're terribly sorry,

but most of the operation is working well.

And that's an entirely fair point.

Even at Gatwick Airport, worst affected today, with 14 cancellations to and from various points in the UK and in continental Europe.

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