The Commons Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) committee will quiz airline bosses, unions and aviation bodies over the flight cancellations. 

Confirmed witnesses include CAA chief executive Richard Moriarity; travel writer Simon Calder; Unite national aviation officer Oliver Richardson; aviation minister Robert Courts, Airport Operators Association (AOA) chief executive Karen Dee and representatives from Tui and Which?. 

Ahead of the session, the committee has launched a survey to canvas the public for their experiences at airports and with airlines. It will ask them how much notice they received before their flights had been cancelled and whether compensation was offered and paid.
  
The committee will look into the causes of these issues, what could have been done better by the airlines, and question aviation minister Robert Courts on what more the government could be doing to ease the crisis.

In April, a transport committee report recommended a number of ways the government could reduce disruption and speed-up recruitment. This included considering increasing the ratio of trainees to supervising security officers above the current 3:1 and easing pinch points at immigration by speeding-up e-gate maintenance.
 
Commenting ahead of the meeting, committee chair Darren Jones said "thousands" of people have been affected by "chaos" at airports in recent weeks with the prospect of delays and cancellations continuing into the summer.

"It’s right that the public get answers about what is causing these issues, how it will be fixed and how consumer rights are being properly enforced with refunds and compensation being paid promptly," he added.