Greater than half one million individuals cancelled flights from Heathrow in December alone attributable to journey fears concerning the Omicron variant, the airport has stated.
The emergence of the brand new Covid pressure sparked a variety of new journey restrictions worldwide – and renewed fears amongst passengers that they might be stranded or face large payments.
Now Heathrow has revealed that no less than 600,000 individuals scrapped their plans due to the event.
Fears round Omicron meant that, from late November, all UK arrivals needed to take a pre-departure lateral move check and self-isolate till they acquired a detrimental end result from a post-arrival PCR check.
That led to many individuals scrapping their journey plans over the festive interval, as instances surges and fears round additional restrictions mounted.
A complete of 19.4 million individuals travelled by Heathrow throughout the entire of final yr.
That was lower than 1 / 4 of pre-pandemic stage in 2019, and 12.3% down on 2020.
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And Heathrow warned that it might be ‘years’ earlier than the sector absolutely recovers.
The airport’s chief government John Holland-Kaye stated: ‘There are at present journey restrictions, corresponding to testing, on all Heathrow routes.
‘The aviation business will solely absolutely get well when these are all lifted and there's no danger that they are going to be reimposed at quick discover, a scenario which is prone to be years away.’
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