London’s Gatwick Airport has told airlines to cut back on inbound flights as it struggles with staff shortages and cancelled flights. Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport limiting the number of passengers allowed inside, asking travellers not to show up more than four hours before their flights. Sydney Airport last week staged a job fair looking for 5,000 new hires to work at airport employers as varied as Qantas Airways and McDonald’s. 25% of scheduled flights on the continent, excluding Russia, took off late, with an average delay of 34 minutes, according to FlightAware, a flight-tracking platform. That compares with 21% of flights in June 2019, when the average delay was 28 minutes in 2019. In the United States, about 3% of. scheduled flights have been scrapped so far this month, compared with a 2% rate in 2019, before . . .
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