Heathrow Airport unable to handle passenger traffic

Heathrow Airport is unable to get people through security.

Report informs via foreign media that Willie Walsh, one of many world’s best-known aviation executives, has stated “heads should roll” at London’s Heathrow airport if there’s a repeat subsequent 12 months of this summer time’s lengthy waits and visitors restrictions.

Walsh, chief government of trade commerce group Iata and former chief government of International Airlines Group, proprietor of British Airways, stated Britain’s busiest airport remained a “major problem”.

“The problem at Heathrow has been mostly down to Heathrow’s inability to get people through security,” Walsh stated on the Airlines 2022 convention in London within the newest signal of anger on the airport’s administration.

“People ask me, ‘Are we going to face these same problems next summer?’” Walsh added. “If they do, heads should roll — let’s be clear about that. There’s no excuse for not getting the problems sorted — no excuse at all.”

At the identical convention Shai Weiss, chief government of Virgin Atlantic, referred to as for a complete rethink of Heathrow’s regulation in gentle of what he stated was poor service and excessive costs on the UK’s solely hub airport.

Backing Weiss’s factors, Walsh stated airports in a lot of the world had recovered nicely from the Covid-19 pandemic.

The exceptions, he stated, had been Heathrow, Amsterdam’s Schiphol, the place Dick Benschop, the airport’s chief government, had stood down, and Dublin Airport, the place Walsh stated the issues had now been resolved.

John Holland-Kaye, Heathrow’s chief government, has laid a lot of the blame for continued disruption on the airport on airways, which he stated had did not recruit adequate floor handlers to handle the rebound in visitors. Walsh referred to as that clarification “total rubbish”.