News / Emirates lashes out at 'incompetent' Heathrow and refuses to cut capacity

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Angry air travel passengers are set to be out in force this summer – but they are not alone. There are also increasingly angry airlines.

The summer airport chaos has led to a very public spat between Emirates and Heathrow, in what is likely to be a continuing row between airports and airlines.

On Tuesday, Heathrow told airlines that it was introducing an immediate capacity cap until 11 September, limited to 100,000 departing passengers a day. It claimed that of the 4,000 ...