Dozens of flights were axed yesterday, with data showing 73 cancellations by 4pm, in addition to the more than 400 flights that were grounded on Friday. That represents around 75,000 passengers across the two days who were booked to fly are not where they intended to be.
More than 9,000 flights around the world have been cancelled so far, according to aviation analyst Cirium. Worst affected yesterday were travellers on British Airways to and from London Heathrow, with easyJet grounding eight flights to and from London Gatwick.
"We are stuck in Tenerife where it seems Tui have abandoned us." So said Sarah Murdoch, one of an estimated 6,000 holidaymakers whose trips with the giant travel firm have become unexpectedly prolonged due to the outage affecting Windows systems.
"Waited at the airport for hours with no Tui rep in sight. We had to arrange our own accommodation and we are flying back tonight with Jet2." Tui says all its customers overseas are being looked after by resort teams.
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