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- UK consumer confidence lowest level since first Covid-19 lockdown
- Biggest one-year decline in confidence since the global financial crisis.
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- EasyJet cancels more than 200 flights over Covid staff sickness
EasyJet cancelled more than 200 flights over the weekend, as rising Covid-19 infections led to a rise in staff absences.
Disruption is expected to last into this week, leaving some passengers stranded amid travel chaos at some of Britain’s biggest airports.
“As a result of the current high rates of Covid infections across Europe, like all businesses easyJet is experiencing higher than usual levels of employee sickness.
“We have made 62 pre-emptive cancellations for flights to and from the UK for [Monday] which represents a small proportion of [Monday’s] total flying programme which was planned to be more than 1,645 flights. We cancelled the majority of these [on Saturday].”
