A boom in summer flights, restricted airspace and strikes are creating the perfect storm for air travel in Europe.
Travel chaos could return this summer as the aviation industry warns of overloaded airports, crowded skies and longer flight times.
Eurocontrol, the organisation that manages Europe’s airspace, has said that this summer will be a “challenging” period with an estimated 33,000 flights per day over the next eight weeks. On Fridays, one of the most popular days to travel, that number could exceed 34,000.
This is 8 per cent more flights overall than took off during the same period last year.
But as air traffic continues to increase into the peak summer
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