Hundreds of flights to and from the United Kingdom have been canceled in recent days due to Covid. The motivation? Too many positive employees. Among the most affected airlines Easyjet and British Airways, with a record number of pilots and flight attendants on sick leave.
The low-cost company cut 200 connections over the weekend, and today another 60.
"Due to the current high rates of coronavirus infections across Europe, like all companies, Easyjet is experiencing higher levels of sick employees than usual," said a spokesperson for the carrier, reassuring however that it is a "small part "of the more than 1,645 flights operated by the company today. While British Airways canceled 60 today to and from Heathrow Airport.
The new cases of Covid in the week ended March 26 reached 4.9 million in the United Kingdom (between symptomatic and asymptomatic), 600,000 more than the previous week.
In terms of deaths and hospital admissions, fortunately, we are far from the high numbers of the first pandemic period.
(Unioneonline / vl)
