An expert has warned that the return to travel last year following Covid restrictions was 'overshadowed' by delays.
Campaigners are urging the UK Government to step in after a third of flights were found to have run behind schedule last year.
As well as more waiting times than previous years, flights were delayed by an average of 22 minutes, which is 60 percent longer than in 2019. "Which? has received hundreds of testimonies from travellers left high and dry by airlines when their flights were cancelled or delayed, from people abandoned in airports to seek emergency accommodation and alternative flights home, to those still chasing compensation months later.
Rocio continued: "We are calling on the Transport Secretary to act without delay and give the Civil Aviation Authority the powers it needs to fine airlines when they break the law and fail in their responsibility to passengers.
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