US President’s visit makes the UK flight schedule go haywire
June 16, 2008
US President flew to London for a stopover. Unfortunately, he will be remembered by about 40,000 travellers for an unsavoury visit, for it resulted in cancellation of 68 flights. Most of the 40,000 travellers faced either cancellation of their flights or delays at Heathrow Airport owing to the VIP’s visit. Certainly an annoying situation by any means!
According to the confirmation of BAA (the Airport owner), 36 outgoing and 36 arrivals, mostly British Airways were subjected to cancellation on June 15, when President Bush arrived and the following day when he left.
BAA stated in a statement: “BAA, the airlines and other business partners at Heathrow did every thing possible in their power to minimise disruption at the airport during George Bush’s presidential visit. In spite of our best efforts some disruption did occur, for which we apologise to affected passengers.” Perhaps, any other disruption in the Presidential visit would have certainly affected the Heathrow Management adversely, but thankfully that did not happen!.
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