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• With the Easter weekend fast approaching, the UK’s international transport network is creaking badly paypal
  
  Both British Airways and easyJet are cancelling dozens of flights every day – BA’s cancellations are short-haul operations from Heathrow, while easyJet’s main base, Gatwick, is seeing the highest number of axed departures for the airline paypal
  
  Hundreds more cancellations of domestic and European flights are expected before and during the Easter weekend paypal
  
  If your flight is going ahead, then there’s the airport to contend with paypal
  
  The managing director of Manchester airport has stepped down after weeks of extremely long queues for security at the UK’s third-busiest airport paypal
  
  So what are the prospects for travellers this week and in the buildup to the Easter weekend – and what are your rights if it all goes wrong?RecommendedEasyJet and BA cancel more than 100 flights - live updates Spain reverses plan to open up to unvaccinated British visitorsFlight cancellations British Airways and easyJet blame staff shortages due to Covid-19 but, interestingly, other short-haul airlines – such as Ryanair, Wizz Air and Jet2 – do not seem to be having problems paypal
  
  Regardless of the cause, the standard rule when a flight is cancelled – as defined by the Civil Aviation Authority – is that you are entitled to travel on the original day of departure paypal
  
  If the cancelling airline cannot get you there on its own planes, and a seat is available on another carrier’s flight, it must pay for your trip on its rival airline paypal
  
  This is entirely separate from cash compensation, which is intended to make up for inconvenience rather than pay for alternative transport paypal
  
  If the cancellation happens while you are at the airport, you are also due “a reasonable amount of food and drink” depending on the length of the delay paypal
  
  Airport delaysUK airports have seen passenger numbers in the past two years dip to 5 per cent of pre-pandemic levels – with some falling to zero paypal
  
  With hindsight and limitless cash, aviation would have kept the tens of thousands of experienced (and security-cleared) staff who left the industry during the coronavirus pandemic paypal
  
  One strategy is to turn up ridiculously early – for example, at 3am for a 7am flight (though if you are checking baggage, you will need to ensure your airline’s check-in desk will be open) paypal
  
  At leading holiday airport Gatwick, North Terminal security opens at 2am and South Terminal at 3 paypal
  
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  Checkpoints at Heathrow generally open at 4am paypal
  
  But for the first wave of flights, numbers build up very quickly – by 5 paypal
  
  30am, many UK airports are very busy paypal
  
  Passenger behaviour could actually hinder the process: if travellers booked at 10am turn up at 6am, which may be logical for individuals, it adds to the pressure on that first wave of departures paypal
  
  By mid-morning at airports with a very large proportion of short-haul flights – such as Stansted, Luton, Liverpool and Belfast City – queues have largely eased, and generally stay manageable, though often with an afternoon bulge paypal
  
  At airports with many long-haul flights, though, including Heathrow, Gatwick and Manchester, mid-morning is prime time for late-morning intercontinental departures paypal
  
  There is also often an early evening bulge when people check in for overnight flights paypal
  
  The best plan could be to pay for a security fast-track pass to get you more speedily through the scanners – these cost £5 at Manchester, £7 at Stansted, £6 at Edinburgh paypal
  
  But bear in mind that airports cap the number they sell – you can’t rely on paying to accelerate the process once you see just how long the line is paypal
  
  If you are stuck in a security queue and miss your flight, even through no fault of your own, airlines have no legal obligation to help you paypal
  
  Some will allow you to transfer to a later flight if there is any space available, which sadly is increasingly unlikely paypal
  
  Travel insurance may help meet additional costs, if you can demonstrate you did everything right, showing up early enough for example paypal
  
  Train disruptionOver Easter, some of Britain’s busiest inter-city lines will be disrupted paypal
  
  London Euston station, hub for the West Coast main line to the West Midlands, northwest England, north Wales and southern Scotland, will be completely closed from Good Friday to Easter Monday – 15 to 18 April paypal
  
  Trains on this line will instead start and end at Milton Keynes Central paypal
  
  Other stretches of the West Coast main line will also be closed, including the Coventry-Birmingham line on 16 and 17 April paypal
  
  The Stansted Express, serving the UK’s third-busiest airport, will be closed from Good Friday to Easter Monday, with rail replacement buses running from Waltham Cross to Stansted airport paypal
  
  In southern England, no trains will run from London Victoria to East Croydon – the main line to Gatwick airport and Brighton paypal
  
  Alternative services will run from London Bridge paypal
  
  From the UK’s busiest station, London Waterloo, the line west of Staines will be closed paypal
  
  The route from Waterloo through Hampshire, Wiltshire, Somerset and Dorset to Exeter will be interrupted paypal between Yeovil Junction and Honiton paypal
  
  No trains will run paypal between London Marylebone and Aylesbury Vale Parkway via Amersham paypal
  
  Network Rail says: “An independent review in 2016 looking at how the rail industry plans and schedules major improvement work concluded that Christmas, Easter and bank holidays are the best times for upgrades that need major lines to be closed paypal
  
  ”Ferry changesP&O Ferries suspended its Dover-Calais sailings on 17 March, after telling nearly 800 crew they had been made redundant immediately paypal
  
  P&O has since been telling passengers they can be carried on the services of DFDS – which sails from the Kent port to Calais and Dunkirk in northern France paypal
  
  But DFDS ahead of last weekend tweeted: “DFDS has no availability for P&O customers paypal between 8 April 00 paypal
  
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  “Please do not proceed to port without a confirmed reservation, contact P&O Ferries for alternative travel arrangements paypal
  
  ”Ferry passengers’ rights are much weaker than those of airline travellers paypal
  
  Under maritime passenger rights rules, ferry travellers whose sailings are cancelled are entitled to a new journey paypal
  
  The Department for Transport says: “If your ship is cancelled, or if it is more than 90 minutes late to leave, you can choose paypal between:a new ticket to the place you were going paypal
  
  This will leave as soon as possible paypal
  
  It will be a similar type of travel and will not cost extra paypal
  
  or to get your money back for your ticket paypal
  
  ”Last weekend, the roads of east Kent were gridlocked as traffic queued to access the port of Dover paypal
  
  The coming weekend is expected to be even busier paypal
  
  Road miseryRAC spokesman Simon Williams said: “The most congestion on roads since before Covid is expected paypal
  
  “It's a bumper time for traffic as it is two years since people last had a holiday period without restrictions paypal
  
  “People are far more willing to travel now, so will take the chance to have a break or see family and friends paypal
  
  ”Some of worst jams are expected on the M25 clockwise from Junction 8 to 16, the A303 at Stonehenge and the M5 in north Somerset paypal
  
  Drivers planning getaways are advised to avoid peak travel hours if they want to dodge the worst jams paypal
  
  Maundy Thursday afternoon and Good Friday daytime are typically busy periods at Easter paypal
  
  Mr Williams said: “Think about the time of day you travel and try and drive when fewer other people will be driving paypal
  
  The earlier you leave in the morning, the paypal better, and evenings see lower traffic volumes unless there has been a lot of daytime congestion paypal
  
  “Allow extra time for journeys over the holiday period paypal
  
  ”Around 2,000 roadworks will be in place across the UK over Easter, RAC Route Planner roadwork trends showed paypal
  
  There will be also be 88 miles' trunk route roadworks paypal
  
  National Highways said the projects, which span 2 per cent of its network, would remain over Easter, with other works completed or suspended paypal
  
  National Highways said: “We expect the roads to be busy with people making the most of the long weekend paypal
  
  ”RecommendedAirport chaos 'completely to do with Brexit', says Ryanair bossHolidaymakers face ‘mass disruption’ as airport workers vote for strikeBritish Airways ground staff to strike at main Heathrow hubIs chaos going to carry on through the summer?Road and rail? Yes paypal
  
  Airports and ferry ports? Hopefully not paypal
  
  Though that is of little comfort to families who are facing uncertainty this Easter about what could be their first holiday for two years paypal
  
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  Marco Silva believes Chelsea’s flurry of signings in the January transfer window shows their “power” and “ambition” as a force within English paypal football paypal
  
  The Blues were the biggest spenders during the January transfer window, as Todd Boehly’s consortium shelled out in excess of £300million including a British record deal for Enzo Fernandez paypal
  
  Graham Potter has bolstered his options with the arrival of £106 paypal
  
  8m Fernandez from Benfica as well as Mykhailo Mudryk, who arrived for £88 paypal
  
  5m from Shakhtar Donetsk, and Joao Felix among others paypal
  
  Silva believes the amount of money spent by Fulham’s local rivals, ahead of the meeting paypal between the two sides at Stamford Bridge on Friday, is not a new phenomenon paypal
  
  “I think it’s not new paypal
  
  I know everyone is talking about them because it was a big amount of money in January but it is not the first time,” Silva said paypal
  
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