Further flight cancellations from Aer Lingus will occur this weekend as airlines are addressing a “significant surge in Covid cases.”
Today’s affected services include three flights departing from Dublin Airport, EI232 to London LGW at 8:50 am, EI552 in Lyon at 12:40 pm, and EI610 in Amsterdam at 6:15 pm It will be.
As a result, the corresponding return flight was also canceled, and the additional return flight to Lyon was also cancelled. The airline states that this is due to the industrial activity of ground handling.
Other airlines affected today include TapAirPortugal, which canceled the return flight TP1323 to Lisbon at 10:45 am.
Eastern Air Lines has also canceled its flight as it arrives from Southampton to Dublin Airport on the T39700 today.
Aer Lingus also canceled two return flights to and from Dublin Airport on Sunday. 7:10 am from EI482 to Lisbon and 5:30 pm from EI436 to Milan MXP.
British Airways has canceled one Sunday flight to Dublin Airport, a 4 pm flight from BA830 to London LHR.
Aer Lingus has canceled more than 60 flights in the past week, with a total of just over 1% of flights affected by the June cancellation.
“Aer Lingus was hoping that travel demand would return after Covid’s restrictions were lifted and appropriate buffers were incorporated into the plan to deal with a reasonable level of additional disruption,” the airline said. Says.
“System pressures and ongoing problems among some airports and third-party suppliers have created considerable operational challenges, exacerbated by the recent surge in Covid cases.”
The airline apologizes to the affected passengers and says the team is working to recontain them.
Under EU Regulation 261/2014, if a flight is canceled for any reason, the airline must provide passengers with one of the following options:
1) Reroute as soon as possible for free, depending on availability.
2) Reroute at a later date.
3) Full refund within 7 days.
In addition to Covid, the aviation industry last weekend was affected by flight attendants and air traffic controllers (ATC) strikes in Spain, Portugal and Belgium.