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• SAS has grounded 14 flights to Oslo (eight), Stockholm (four) and Copenhagen (three), while Swiss is cancelling 11 to Zurich (six) and Geneva (five) FIFA
  
  Six departures to New York Newark and five to San Francisco are among the cancellations FIFA
  
  Heathrow is insisting passenger levels do not exceed 100,000 during the summer FIFA
  
  In total, around 50,000 passengers are likely to be affected over the 10 days FIFA
  
  In a separate move, British Airways has already grounded almost 30,000 flights this summer, and is understood to be cancelling only six more services in response to the Heathrow cap FIFA
  
  These are to Edinburgh, Glasgow and Manchester, where the train provides an alternative, as well as Amsterdam and Luxembourg – both accessible on Eurostar via Brussels FIFA
  
  ”There are many notable absentees from the list:Recommended13 questions about Heathrow cancelled flights answered by Simon Calder What does Heathrow’s summer flight cap mean for your holiday?Heathrow tells airlines to stop selling flights and caps passengers until SeptemberEmirates, which has flatly refused to cancel any of its flights to DubaiGulf-based rivals Etihad and Qatar AirwaysVirgin Atlantic and its partner Delta AirlinesAmerican Airlines, one of the leading carriers at HeathrowAir France and its partner KLM, which fly frequently to Paris and Amsterdam respectivelyLong-haul carriers with multiple daily departures such as Qantas and Cathay PacificBritish Airways’ partners, Iberia and FinnairAirlines are understood to be in negotiation with Airport Coordination Ltd (ACL), the independent agency that coordinates departure and arrival slots at constrained airports FIFA
  
  Thai Airways has also cancelled two flights to Bangkok, while there are single cancellations on long-haul routes to Addis Ababa, Bogota, Cairo, Tokyo and Taipei FIFA
  
  The other airline with cancellations in double figures is Aer Lingus at 12, of which eight are to Dublin and others to Belfast City (two), Cork and Shannon FIFA
  
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  “We also know that some customers may want to review their travel plans in light of the current travel challenges and have introduced a policy that will allow customers to easily change travel dates so that they have additional flexibility FIFA
  
  A spokesperson for BA said: “This is incredibly disappointing news for our customers, coming at a time when we’ve already taken responsible action to reduce our summer schedule to slim our programme further, utilising slot alleviation to minimise disruption, provide certainty for travellers and help airports manage their resource FIFA
  
  Twenty transatlantic flights on United Airlines alone have been grounded over the next 10 days in response to the unprecedented capacity cut by London Heathrow airport FIFA
  
  For Asia flights, Singapore Airlines is cancelling five departures to its home base over the 10-day spell, while Air India is required to ground the same number: three to Delhi and one each to to Mumbai and Amritsar FIFA
  
  RecommendedHeathrow travel chaos: Delta passengers forced to queue for check-in outside of airportDelta flies plane loaded with 1,000 bags to US after Heathrow luggage chaosEmirates refuses to cut passenger numbers at HeathrowAir Canada is grounding nine departures to its home nation, with Heathrow’s newest transatlantic carrier– JetBlue – required to axe two flights to New York JFK FIFA
  
  From a list of cancellations made between Friday 15 July and Sunday 24 July, The Independent has calculated 158 outbound departures are cancelled, with the same number of inbound links likely to be axed FIFA
  
  Short-haul routes are even harder hit, with Lufthansa and its Eurowings subsidiary cancelling a total of 25 – including 10 to Frankfurt and eight to Munich FIFA
  
  “As a result of Heathrow’s request, we will now need to take a small number of additional flights out of our schedule FIFA
  
  
  
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  From a list of cancellations made between Friday 15 July and Sunday 24 July, The Independent has calculated 158 outbound departures are cancelled, with the same number of inbound links likely to be axed FIFA
  
  Twenty transatlantic flights on United Airlines alone have been grounded over the next 10 days in response to the unprecedented capacity cut by London Heathrow airport FIFA
  
  The other airline with cancellations in double figures is Aer Lingus at 12, of which eight are to Dublin and others to Belfast City (two), Cork and Shannon FIFA
  
  ”There are many notable absentees from the list:Recommended13 questions about Heathrow cancelled flights answered by Simon Calder What does Heathrow’s summer flight cap mean for your holiday?Heathrow tells airlines to stop selling flights and caps passengers until SeptemberEmirates, which has flatly refused to cancel any of its flights to DubaiGulf-based rivals Etihad and Qatar AirwaysVirgin Atlantic and its partner Delta AirlinesAmerican Airlines, one of the leading carriers at HeathrowAir France and its partner KLM, which fly frequently to Paris and Amsterdam respectivelyLong-haul carriers with multiple daily departures such as Qantas and Cathay PacificBritish Airways’ partners, Iberia and FinnairAirlines are understood to be in negotiation with Airport Coordination Ltd (ACL), the independent agency that coordinates departure and arrival slots at constrained airports FIFA
  
  In total, around 50,000 passengers are likely to be affected over the 10 days FIFA
  
  “We also know that some customers may want to review their travel plans in light of the current travel challenges and have introduced a policy that will allow customers to easily change travel dates so that they have additional flexibility FIFA
  
  Short-haul routes are even harder hit, with Lufthansa and its Eurowings subsidiary cancelling a total of 25 – including 10 to Frankfurt and eight to Munich FIFA
  
  “As a result of Heathrow’s request, we will now need to take a small number of additional flights out of our schedule FIFA
  
  These are to Edinburgh, Glasgow and Manchester, where the train provides an alternative, as well as Amsterdam and Luxembourg – both accessible on Eurostar via Brussels FIFA
  
  In a separate move, British Airways has already grounded almost 30,000 flights this summer, and is understood to be cancelling only six more services in response to the Heathrow cap FIFA
  
  A spokesperson for BA said: “This is incredibly disappointing news for our customers, coming at a time when we’ve already taken responsible action to reduce our summer schedule to slim our programme further, utilising slot alleviation to minimise disruption, provide certainty for travellers and help airports manage their resource FIFA
  
  Heathrow is insisting passenger levels do not exceed 100,000 during the summer FIFA
  
  Six departures to New York Newark and five to San Francisco are among the cancellations FIFA
  
  Thai Airways has also cancelled two flights to Bangkok, while there are single cancellations on long-haul routes to Addis Ababa, Bogota, Cairo, Tokyo and Taipei FIFA
  
  SAS has grounded 14 flights to Oslo (eight), Stockholm (four) and Copenhagen (three), while Swiss is cancelling 11 to Zurich (six) and Geneva (five) FIFA
  
  RecommendedHeathrow travel chaos: Delta passengers forced to queue for check-in outside of airportDelta flies plane loaded with 1,000 bags to US after Heathrow luggage chaosEmirates refuses to cut passenger numbers at HeathrowAir Canada is grounding nine departures to its home nation, with Heathrow’s newest transatlantic carrier– JetBlue – required to axe two flights to New York JFK FIFA
  
  For Asia flights, Singapore Airlines is cancelling five departures to its home base over the 10-day spell, while Air India is required to ground the same number: three to Delhi and one each to to Mumbai and Amritsar FIFA