Airport mayhem gripped terminals again on Sunday as images emerged of customers forced to sleep on floors, surrounded by snaking passenger queues and mountains of abandoned luggage.ground staff voted in favour of strike action at the carrier’s Heathrow hub.appear to show the country’s travel hubs already in the eye of the storm.
Complaints regarding enormous queues at both airports were flooding Twitter, with one user describing the scenes at the former as “chaotic”. The current airport chaos, which has seen flight delays and cancellations, is “completely to do with Brexit”, the boss of the Ryanair airline said earlier this week.
It came in response to remarks made by transport secretary Grant Shapps, who denied Brexit was to blame for ongoing travel woes, instead accusing airlines of “seriously overselling” flights since the Covid pandemic.“It’s completely to do with Brexit. A lot of these pinch points would be solved very quickly if we could bring in European workers.“We are hide-bound and hamstrung by a government so desperate to show Brexit has been a success, when it’s been an abject failure.