Yesterday London Heathrow airport revealed that is has imposed a capacity cap to reduce delays this summer. In a public letter, CEO John Holland-Kaye, said that “the maximum number of daily departing passengers that airlines, airline ground handlers and the airport can collectively serve over the summer is no more than 100,000”. Heathrow estimates that daily departing seats over the summer will average 104,000 – giving a daily excess of 4,000 seats. Holland-Kaye said: “On average only about 1,500 of these 4,000 daily seats have currently been sold to passengers, and so we are asking our airline partners to stop

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