Ryanair chief warns travel chaos will continue for MONTHS with cancelled flights and long queues

THE CEO of Ryanair has warned that Brits ought to anticipate the journey chaos to proceed for months.

Cancelled flights, lengthy queues and delays on the border have resulted in enormous chaos for households hoping for an extended overdue vacation overseas.

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Ryanair CEO Eddie Wilson, when requested if the UK would proceed to see months of airline issues, informed Wales On-line: “I believe so.”

He added: “I believe a number of the airways are struggling, a number of the dealing with firms, a number of the airports are struggling, however once more, that is all through the financial system.

“We noticed late final 12 months the scarcity of HGV drivers, provide chain interruptions, however I believe firms might have been higher ready.”

He added that it’s laborious to “cease an airline and begin once more […] is a tough factor to do,” however mentioned Ryanair was in a “good place” for the summer season.

Airways together with easyJet and British Airways have cancelled hundreds of flights in current weeks, citing a scarcity in employees brought on by Covid.

BA decreased its schedule earlier this month, which is able to final till Might, in a bid to forestall brief time period flight cancellations.

And lengthy airport queues are persevering with to plague holidaymakers throughout the UK, particularly at Manchester Airport.

And yesterday dozens of passengers have been seen in lengthy queues at Heathrow Aiport as holidaymakers tried to verify in for his or her Easter flights.

In Birmingham, holidaymakers have been compelled to attend in “long-long quick monitor” queues to get by way of safety throughout the journey chaos.

At Stansted, Britain’s fourth largest airport, travellers have been informed to even arrive the night time earlier than if their airline has an early bag drop service.

A spokesman mentioned: “Passengers ought to verify with their airways as some open bag drop the day earlier than early morning flights.”

And TUI passengers are being informed to drop their suitcases on the airport the night time earlier than their flight as properly to attempt to keep away from the lengthy queues.

It isn’t simply the airports – hundreds of passengers have had their holidays disrupted by the P&O Ferries cancellations in any case providers have been suspended this weekend.

And to cap it off, a number of households have been compelled to cancel their holidays resulting from enormous delays in passport renewals, which has seen many wait greater than the beneficial 10 weeks.

All of it comes as Brits heading away for the Easter weekend have been urged to keep away from travelling immediately to skip nightmare gridlock.

A whopping 27.6million vehicles will hit the roads on Friday, Saturday and Sunday throughout the greatest springtime getaway since 2019.

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