Emirates blasts Heathrow ‘incompetence’ over ‘airmageddon’
Dubai -based airlines on Thursday slammed the demands made by Heathrow London Airport earlier this week that the operator stopped selling tickets again for this summer, CNN reported.
The airline, which operates six daily flights from Heathrow, has rejected a new limit and calls it “completely unreasonable and unacceptable”, CNN reported.Heathrow, like other airports, has struggled to overcome the boutified back on a traveler after two years of pandemic restrictions and staff slaughtering. The airport said on Tuesday that they would limit the number of daily passengers to 100,000 to 11 September.
“(London Heathrow) chose not to act, not to plan, not to invest. Now confronted with the situation of ‘Airmageddon’ because of the inability and non-action, they encourage all the burden of costs and struggles to sort the chaos to airlines and travelers,” said the word said The airline in a statement, CNN reported.The company said that Heathrow had given him only 36 hours to comply with new hats, and had threatened legal action against airlines that refused to comply. He added that he had sufficient handling and catering staff to handle his flights at the airport.
Emirates said that the Heathrow Management Team “Arrogant about travelers and their airline customers,” and had failed to knit again and trained quite a lot of staff before the surge that could be predicted on the summer trip, CNN reported.On average, Heathrow handles nearly 220,000 passengers every day, split between arrival and departure, in 2018.CEO Heathrow John Holland-Kaye said in an open letter to passengers on Tuesday that the airline had sold too many seats for the next few months.
