(Bloomberg) --London Heathrow is imposing a two-month cap on daily passenger traffic, a dramatic response by the UK’s busiest airport to the flight chaos gripping Europe as airlines and ground crew struggle to process a surge in travel demand.
The airport will limit daily passenger traffic to 100,000 departing people through Sept. 11, asking airlines to refrain from selling summer tickets, according to a release on Tuesday. Current forecasts are modeling for as many as 104,000 passengers a day over the summer, still below the roughly 125,000 passengers that left daily this time before the pandemic.
“Our objective is to protect flights for the vast majority of passengers at Heathrow this summer,” said John Holland-Kaye, Heathrow’s CEO. “We recognise that this will mean some summer journeys will either be moved to another day, another airport or be canceled and we apologise to those whose travel plans are affected.”
Capacity curbs across Europe have also caused ticket prices to surge. Deutsche Lufthansa AG has has said it will only offer seats in its most expensive booking class for the month of July as it wrestles with the new constraints. That move raised the price of even the cheapest return flights between London and Frankfurt to 1,000 euros .
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