London Gatwick airport said it will scrap hundreds of flights over the peak summer travel period, hours after Amsterdam’s Schiphol hub took a similar step, as the aviation industry’s staffing crisis deepened.
Gatwick, Britain’s second-busiest airport after London Heathrow, will limit airlines to 825 flights a day in July and 850 a day in August, from a pre-pandemic peak of around 950 services, it said in a statement Friday. Schiphol said late Thursday that passenger numbers will be capped about 20% below usual levels.
