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Summer disruption in spotlight next week at transport committee hearing

Government
Tom Parry
7 October 2022

British Airways, easyJet and Gatwick bosses are set to be quizzed by MPs next week over the summer’s travel disruption.

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The Transport Select Committee is to host a one-off evidence session from 9.15am on Wednesday (12 October) examining the problems faced across the aviation, rail and maritime sectors which caused major delays for UK travellers.

MPs will consider whether the issues were “foreseeable or preventable” and discuss what the current government can do to make travel plans more certain for consumers. 

Stewart Wingate, chief executive of Gatwick, Sophie Dekkers, chief commercial officer at easyJet, and Lisa Tremble, British Airways’ corporate and sustainability director, will each give evidence as part of the session.