Chaos at airports – Why summer flights are canceled in bursts

– Why summer flights are canceled in bursts

Flights offered for booking and suddenly canceled? Faced with suspicions of financial maneuvering, an air sector executive describes the situation on the tarmac.

Published: 08.06.2022, 7:54 p.m.

Swiss finds itself in the crosshairs due to the “temporary adaptation of [son] flight schedule” announced a month ago. According to “Blick”, this would concern nearly 30,000 passengers this summer.

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Are you sure you’ve checked that you’re really going on vacation this year? It would be preferable. Across Europe, companies are announcing one after the other flight cuts this summer. And this does not only concern three overbooked seats at the end of July for Figari.

Serial defections

After Easyjet, it is once again Swiss that finds itself in the line of fire due to the “temporary adaptation of [son] flight schedule” announced a month ago. Not a disaster, we are talking about five thefts out of a hundred.

Except that the German-speaking newspaper “Blick” set fire to the powder by calculating that this would concern nearly 30,000 passengers this summer. What agitate the spirits who are no longer satisfied with the main reason invoked for weeks – the lack of cabin crew.