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The title says ANY tickets, which won't actually the case since the aim is a reduction in passengers and many flights won't be fully booked anyway but the "cli

The title says ANY tickets, which won't actually the case since the aim is a reduction in passengers and many flights won't be fully booked anyway but the "clickbait" bit is the dramatic title, weak definition of perhaps, but its still excessive example of level reporting: https://news.sky.com/story/new-summer-holiday-threat-as-heathrow-imposes-passenger-cap-until-september-12650517 https://news.sky.com/story/new-summer-holiday-threat-as-heat...

cm2187 4y ago
The letter says "so we are asking our airline partners to stop selling summer tickets to limit the impact on passengers." I do read this as selling any ticket, which is the title of the article.
- throwaway67743 4y ago
  Asks, not tells them to stop (and most airlines are still selling tickets, likely because many people that would be traveling now won't be so there will be spare capacity) - the problem is the article a) is a bit dramatic and misleading with the title, and b) isn't of particularly high quality anyway
  - cm2187 4y ago
    Again the article covers that. The airport cannot enforce the rule but if the airlines do not play ball (and I suspect the airport has visibility on ticket sales), it can cancel flights wholesale.
dragonwriter 4y ago
Your article says the same thing as the one you call clickbait. They are already over the target cap, and they are asking for no additional ticket sales as a means of preventing going further over the cap, and indicating that if the numbers sold get worse, they will be forced to impose flight cancellations and may prohibit rebookings for passengers on any cancelled flights since such rebookings would defeat the purpose of reducing passengers.
- throwaway67743 4y ago
  Yes, but it does it without the tabloid caps, Sky are by no means innocent re this type of thing of course
maest 4y ago
The Sky article is actually worse quality. The original article quotes the full CEO statement, which is what I care about.

cm2187 4y ago

The letter says "so we are asking our airline partners to stop selling summer tickets to limit the impact on passengers." I do read this as selling any ticket, which is the title of the article.

throwaway67743 4y ago
Asks, not tells them to stop (and most airlines are still selling tickets, likely because many people that would be traveling now won't be so there will be spare capacity) - the problem is the article a) is a bit dramatic and misleading with the title, and b) isn't of particularly high quality anyway
- cm2187 4y ago
  Again the article covers that. The airport cannot enforce the rule but if the airlines do not play ball (and I suspect the airport has visibility on ticket sales), it can cancel flights wholesale.

dragonwriter 4y ago

Your article says the same thing as the one you call clickbait. They are already over the target cap, and they are asking for no additional ticket sales as a means of preventing going further over the cap, and indicating that if the numbers sold get worse, they will be forced to impose flight cancellations and may prohibit rebookings for passengers on any cancelled flights since such rebookings would defeat the purpose of reducing passengers.

throwaway67743 4y ago
Yes, but it does it without the tabloid caps, Sky are by no means innocent re this type of thing of course

maest 4y ago

The Sky article is actually worse quality. The original article quotes the full CEO statement, which is what I care about.