In a joint statement, Emirates and Heathrow airport, announced that The President of Emirates Airline and the CEO of Heathrow Airport held a constructive meeting July, 15th. Emirates agreed the airline was ready and willing to work with the airport to remediate the situation over the next 2 weeks, to keep demand and capacity in balance and provide passengers with a smooth and reliable journey through Heathrow this summer.
Emirates has capped further sales on its flights out of Heathrow until mid-August to assist Heathrow in its resource ramp up, and is working to adjust capacity.
In the meantime, Emirates flights from Heathrow operate as scheduled and ticketed passengers may travel as booked.
Earlier, Emirates critisized the request made by Heathrow airport to airlines to reduce the daily capacity to be only 100,000 passenger a day. Read More.
Etihad Airways on Friday said it would operate all five return daily Abu Dhabi - London Heathrow flights at full capacity until at least the end of the month despite a request by Britain's busiest airport for airlines to cut capacity to ease congestion. read more
Reported By Aero News Journal