EasyJet has revealed the cancellation of 1,700 flights in the course of the peak summer time vacation season.

The low price airline indicated that, like many rivals, it had been compelled to behave in response to the influence of air site visitors management (ATC) strikes in Europe and knock-on results of the closure of airspace because of the Russia-Ukraine conflict.

It denied any suggestion that it was struggling a repeat of last year’s troubles that had been linked to workers shortages within the wake of the COVID pandemic.

EasyJet stated it will largely consolidate some companies to and from Gatwick airport, its busiest operation, between July and September in a bid to eradicate the specter of disruption to its clients’ vacation plans.

It stated that Gatwick flights had been most uncovered to strikes in France.

Ryanair, which has blamed the air site visitors controllers’ motion for disruption to 1.1 million passengers, has beforehand known as for the European Commission to intervene to guard companies.

An easyJet spokesperson stated: “We are currently operating up to around 1800 flights and carrying around 250,000 customers per day, with more crew and pilots flying than ever before and like all airlines, we review our flights on an ongoing basis.

As Eurocontrol has stated, the whole industry is seeing challenging conditions this summer with more constrained air space due to the war in Ukraine resulting in unprecedented ATC delays, as well as further potential ATC strike action.

“We have due to this fact made some pre-emptive changes to our programme consolidating a small variety of flights at Gatwick, the place now we have a number of every day frequencies, in an effort to assist mitigate these exterior challenges on the day of journey for our clients and we proceed to function round over 90,000 flights over this era.

“Customers whose flights are affected are being informed, with 95% customers being rebooked onto an alternative flight and all customers provided with the option to rebook or receive a refund.

“We are sorry for any inconvenience that this will have prompted.”