The travel boom after the kovise left many airlines unprepared, but airlines and airports believe that the problems of summer 2022 are now firmly behind.Photo: Tolga Akmen/EPA
The school is outside for many vacationers and this weekend marks the beginning of the great summer vacation. So far, British airports expect their most busy days from 2025, with more than 9,000 flights to lead up to 1.7 million people abroad.
Despite the dream of sustainable travel and direct trains to the sun, most British will fly abroad.
After a few years, airlines and airports have taken over more employees and promised a better experience. In the meantime, luggage states, security, compensation and border rules are checked – but the punishments to do it wrong can stab.
So what are the changes that passengers could alleviate this year – or spell a more turbulent trip?
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YES-DROTZ new state-of-the-art scanner, which are now installed at high costs at many airports. Some relaxed the 100 ml -fluid rules in 2023, but they had to stop again last year. Now only Edinburgh and Birmingham enable passengers to lead containers with up to two liters through security. But these airports are outliers – and even if you take larger toilet items in hand luggage on a late flight, there is no guarantee that you return abroad.
The Minister of Transport Heidi Alexander said that the British should assume that the liquid border is: “Based on the basis, you should work that it is currently 100 ml, unless you have heard of your airport otherwise.”
The tyranny of tiny toilet articles has fluctuated for a thwarted transatlantic bombing site since 2006 after the first introduction of liquids, pastes and gels.
The improved security traces and new CT scanners also mean that passengers do not have to remove their laptops or electronics – already possible at many airports.
But airports are located in different phases of the restrictions – sometimes within their own terminals. At London Gatwick, for example, all 19 safety traces have CT scanner, so that passengers no longer have to remove devices or have to put liquids in plastic bags -but the 100 ml limit value still applies.
The size of the hand luggage has become a flashpoint at the departure gate, because the travelers fight with different rules depending on the airline with which they fly.
The rules for “large” cabin bags such as the wheelie case, for which most short-haul aircraft now calculate. For the small or “personal” cabin bag, which is usually placed under the seat in front of the seat, there is now a baseline, since airlines fall into the EU minimum bag behind a new EU minimum bag size of 40 cm by 30 cm.
This should theoretically frequent travelers to buy a piece of luggage that is accepted by all airlines.
Some airlines such as Easyjet already enable a more generous free bag in the undersister. Ryanair increases its maximum dimensions from 40 x 25 x 20 cm to 40 x 30 x 20 cm, whereby the change is “implemented in the coming weeks, since our Airport -BAG sizer is adapted”.
But if you misunderstand it and a gate check keeps your bag oversized, you continue to pay a fee – £ 60 for Ryanair and a similar fee for other airlines like Jet2.
The airline association airlines for Europe said its 28 members will pursue the rule by the end of the summer season 2025, but “the airlines will continue to allow larger personal objects at their own discretion”.
Last month, the European Parliament’s transport committee voted to give passengers the right to an additional piece of hand luggage with a weight of up to 7 kg. According to the proposed rule (still to be approved), travelers could be able to bring a cabin bag with up to 100 cm (the sum of the dimensions) and a personal bag without additional costs.
However, airlines argue that this cannot happen: According to Kenton Jarvis, Easyjet CEO, the suggestion is silly – “There is simply no space for all suitcases in the cabin.”
There will still be a lot of time to admire the profound blue of passports after Brexit on the Slow Lane on most European airports. Since May, a fundamental agreement has led to the EU countries able to allow British passengers to use their e-gates. In practice, most are passed through the personnel boundary posts to stamp passes until the delayed entry system of the EU, EES, arrives in October.
EU travelers must then submit biometric information for their first visit to cross the border with facial recognition technology. Another sting in the cock is that the British visitors will soon need to have 7 € (£ 6) in mid-2026-a European travel information and authorization system visa in order to enter the EU. (Better, but the £ 16, which all visitors must now pay for through their own electronic travel approval.)
The travel boom according to the scope left many unprepared, but airlines and airports believe that the problems of summer 2022 are far behind, with continued recruitment and more populated employees. The airlines are increasingly turning to KI to predict problems, reorganizing their processes during the disorder at short notice and increasing resilience.
However, air traffic control remains a problem. A record number of flights is expected, and the European sky in particular is more and more overloaded: the closure of the Ukrainian and Russian airspace and parts of the Middle East have also pressed many long -haul flights into the same corridors. Throw in the employees and strikes of Air traffic control (ATC), and more and more airlines are finding their flights, which are triggered or delayed again. Easyjet, Ryanair and BA are now saying that ATC delays are their biggest headaches.
The airlines are obliged to provide refreshments for delays of two to four hours. BA says that this will automatically do this via QR codes and vouchers in his app for passengers in Heathrow. Easyjet has added what it now calls as a “aces” or airport experience specialist in Gatwick and his other large hubs to offer additional help and support.
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