More airlines cancel summer flights and curb ticket sales to ease travel chaos       

Air France KLM and Lufthansa cut flight as the dream of pandemic recovery turns into a nightmare for airlines
More airlines cancel summer flights and curb ticket sales to ease travel chaos       

KLM said it would 'strongly restrict' remaining ticket sales on its Cityhopper and European routes to allow customers affected by cancellations rebook. File picture

Two of Europe’s biggest airlines announced another round of cancellations, adding to the disruption turning the travel sector’s pandemic recovery summer into a nightmare. The Dutch arm of Air France-KLM plans to cancel as many as 20 round-trip flights to European destinations every day through the end of August. Lufthansa said it will cancel 770 flights in the coming week.

The European aviation industry has suffered unprecedented bottlenecks and long check-in lines at airports from London Heathrow to Dusseldorf and Dublin.

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