After imposing a daily passenger cap departing from its terminals, the kindest thing to say about Heathrow Airport right now is that it is in crisis mode.
Flights are being cancelled with startling regularity, delays are the norm and baggage piles are mounting.
The pandemonium is somewhat ironic given it has been caused by the travel resurgence airport chiefs spent most of the last two and a half years dreaming of.
Ever since UK Covid travel rules were imposed, industry honchos pled with the government to reduce restrictions significantly or remove them entirely, while simultaneously encouraging travellers to get airborne again.
Their wish granted, passenger numbers in June this year reached 5,990,385, a level comparable to that seen before March 2019.
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