EasyJet has been pressured to cancel 1,700 flights in the course of the peak summer season vacation season.

The low-cost airline indicated, like many rivals, it had been pressured to behave in response to the affect of air visitors management (ATC) strikes in Europe and knock-on results of the closure of airspace as a result of Russia-Ukraine warfare.

It denied any suggestion that it was struggling a repeat of last year's troubles that have been linked to employees shortages within the wake of the COVID pandemic.

EasyJet mentioned it will largely consolidate some providers to and from Gatwick Airport, its busiest operation, between July and September in a bid to eradicate the specter of disruption to its clients' vacation plans.

It mentioned that Gatwick flights had been most uncovered to strikes in France.

Ryanair, which has blamed the air visitors controllers' motion for disruption to 1.1 million passengers, has beforehand referred to as for the European Commission to intervene to guard providers.

The cancelled easyJet flights signify 2% of its summer season flight schedule, affecting as much as 180,000 clients.

It is known 95% of affected passengers have already been re-booked on another flight.

An easyJet spokesperson mentioned: "We are at the moment working as much as round 1,800 flights and carrying round 250,000 clients per day, with extra crew and pilots flying than ever earlier than and like all airways, we evaluation our flights on an ongoing foundation.

As Eurocontrol has said, the entire trade is seeing difficult circumstances this summer season with extra constrained air house as a result of warfare in Ukraine leading to unprecedented ATC delays, in addition to additional potential ATC strike motion.

"We have therefore made some pre-emptive adjustments to our programme consolidating a small number of flights at Gatwick, where we have multiple daily frequencies, in order to help mitigate these external challenges on the day of travel for our customers and we continue to operate around over 90,000 flights over this period.

"Customers whose flights are affected are being knowledgeable, with 95% of consumers being rebooked onto another flight and all clients supplied with the choice to rebook or obtain a refund.

"We are sorry for any inconvenience that this may have caused."