but also some of the key holiday destinations, spain for example, a popular place for brits to travel, they have had some restrictions that meant you cannot necessarily travel there. now that has been lifted, so huge surge in demand. unfortunately, airports have not been able to cope with that demand. heathrow, who we have been hearing from, has said that actually, they have not got the workers on the ground to be able to deal with that influx of passengers, and they have spoken to airlines to try to come to an agreement about scaling back capacity. that has not gone down well, has it? a lot of staff were let go, fired, made redundant, during covid, and now they need them back again. so what are the airlines doing? it varies from brand to brand, i'm sure. emirates have said, let's come to an agreement here. we will scale back on some of our flights per day to try and meet you in the middle.
sales of its flights out of heathrow until mid—august. with me now is our business correspondent vishala sri—pathma. remind us about the background of this because it feels like it has been rumbling on for a while. we have been rumbling on for a while. - have been talking about a surge in demand for holidays at the moment, clearly people who have been at home, stuck because of restrictions on airline travel for the last couple of years, this is the first year the airlines have some sort of chance of recuperating some losses they have endured. lots of people are quite eager to go abroad because restrictions have notjust been here in the uk, some of the key holiday destinations, spain for example, they have had restrictions in place that meant you cannot necessarily travel there. now that has been lifted. unfortunately, airports have not been able to cope with that
that's all the sport for now. you can find more on all those stories on the bbc sport website. airlines are being forced to either cancel or run fewer flights because of staff shortages at heathrow airport. emirates airlines have agreed to cap sales of their flights out of heathrow until mid—august. a short time ago i spoke to our business correspondent vishala sri—pathma. clearly people have been at home, stuck because of restrictions on airline travel for the last couple of years, this is the first year the airlines have some sort of chance of recuperating some losses they have endured. lots of people are quite eager to go abroad, because restrictions have notjust been here in the uk, but also some of the key holiday destinations, spain for example, a popular place for brits to travel, they have had that meant you cannot necessarily travel there. now that has been lifted. huge surge in demand. unfortunately, airports have not
clearly people have been at home, stuck because of restrictions on airline travel for the last couple of years, this is the first year the airlines have some sort of chance of recuperating some losses they have endured. lots of people are quite eager to go abroad, because restrictions have notjust been here in the uk, but also some of the key holiday destinations, spain for example, a popular place for brits to travel, they have had some restrictions that meant you cannot necessarily travel there. now that has been lifted. huge surge in demand. unfortunately, airports have not been able to cope with that demand. heathrow, who we have been hearing from, has said that actually, they have not got the workers on the ground to be able to deal with that influx of passengers, and they have spoken to airlines to try to come to an agreement about scaling back capacity. that has not gone down well, has it? a lot of staff were let go, fired, made redundant, during covid and now they need them back again. what are the airlines doing?
notjust been here in the uk, but also some of the key holiday destinations, spain for example, a popular place, they have had restrictions in place that meant you cannot necessarily travel there. now that has been lifted. huge surge in demand. unfortunately, airports have not been able to cope with that demand. heathrow, who we have been hearing from, has said that actually, they have not got the workers on the ground to be able to deal with that influx of passengers and they have spoken to airlines to try to come to an agreement about scaling back capacity. that has not gone down well, has it? a lot of staff were let go, fired, made redundant, during covid and now they need them back again. what are the airlines doing? it varies from brand to brand, i'm sure. emirates have said let's come to an agreement here. we will scale back on some of our flights per day to try
i'm here in liverpool to meet m], the director of a popular cosmetic dental practice. from the get go, i must make it very clear that not all dentists in far—flung places and these dental holiday destinations are bad dentists. completely agree. the overwhelming majority of the dentists that practice in these countries are ethical, they're professional and they're very good individuals. this clinic receives two to three calls a day from patients who have had dental treatment carried out abroad. some patients call when they're in pain. they're getting inflamed gums, bleeding gums, or they can't floss because their crowns are stuck together. 597 of the 1,000 bda dentists we surveyed said they had treated both patients with crown complications and seen patients who visited turkey for their dental treatment. so, what is your response to these patients that are calling, asking to come to your clinic for help? of course we want to always help patients that are in pain,
off to a rough start. severe weather, giving us a shout, striking the northeast with heavy rain and flash floods. the storms only making the journey worse for the record number of americans driving or flying to their holiday destinations. >> our flight got canceled yesterday, so now we are hopscotching around to get around. >> the tsa reported nearly 2.5 million passengers went through airport security friday, the highest number since february 2020. that's just before the pandemic. >> the line at laguardia for the tsa was really wraps around the entire terminal where the back-check was. i've never seen anything like that in my life. >> road trips are kicking into high gear, too. aaa predicting nearly 40 million people will drive at least 50 miles from home this weekend, even with gas prices averaging around $4.82 a gallon. >> many folks didn't really travel much over the past couple of years, so this is the
with a temperature of 32.7 degrees celsius being recorded at santon downham, in suffolk. a level 3 heat—health alert has been in place for london, the east of england and the south east. it's the third day in a row to break this year's weather records. but the heatwave is due to end over the weekend, as our correspondent celestina olulode reports. cooling down on the river cam in cambridge. who needs to a busy airport when temperatures in many parts of the uk to are higher in many popular holiday destinations? who needs to queue at a busy airport when temperatures in many parts of the uk to are higher than in many popular holiday destinations? visitors sought shade at one of the country's hottest spots, cambridge university botanic garden. we're pretty well equipped at home because we have a little paddling pool for this guy, and lots of fans, so it felt like it was quite like this last year, so we were equipped for hot weather. terrible — the hay fever has been
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