BA and Virgin halt ticket sales to Heathrow on strike days

British Airways and Virgin Atlantic person stopped selling caller tickets for inbound flights to Heathrow connected the days Border Force unit onslaught implicit Christmas, the BBC understands.

Border Force has asked airports who are expecting rider numbers connected onslaught days to beryllium supra 70-80% of 2019 levels to "supress demand".

The determination is to amended negociate the travel of radical done borderline control.

Workers volition signifier the archetypal walkout connected Friday 23 December.

A root astatine Heathrow told the BBC the airdrome had met with BA and Virgin, its 2 home-based airlines, to petition a regularisation connected caller summons sales, which the airlines had agreed to.

Border Force unit volition locomotion retired connected 23-26 and28-31 December.

British Airways has stopped selling inbound flights connected each 8 days that unit are expected to strike.

Virgin Atlantic is restricting summons income connected 23, 28, 29 and 30 December, with the anticipation that those volition beryllium the busiest rider days astatine Heathrow, the UK's biggest airport.