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The suspension of sales on domestic or European tickets was implemented at the beginning of August to allow for existing customers to rebook their cancelled flights.
After consultation with airlines, capacity limits at Heathrow will be extended at the same level to October 29
It means a daily limit on departing passengers will now apply until after the October half-term holidays.
London Heathrow airport is to maintain its current capacity cap at the same level until the end of the summer schedule on 29 October. The UK hub airport initially imposed the cap of 100,000 departing passengers per day for two months from 12 July to 11 September.
LONDON: Heathrow airport said on Monday it was extending its capacity limit through most of October to reduce the chaos caused by a post-pandemic surge in passengers amid a lack of staff. Europe’s largest airport introduced a cap of 100,000 departing passengers per day in July, which was originally slated to have expired at the end of September. “Since the cap was introduced,