EasyJet warns UK airports are still ill-prepared for drones
EasyJet has warned that airports are still not ready to fend off the sort of drone disruption that brought the carrier’s UK hub to a standstill late last year. EasyJet pinned some of the blame for widening first-half losses on the disruption at Gatwick, which cost it GBP10m as flights were suspended for 36 hours and about 140,000 passengers were affected in total. “It’s not enough to see airports are investing in equipment, they don’t have the authority to use them, they can’t train with them,” Johan Lundgren, EasyJet’s CE, said of airport’s drone defences. A spokesman for Airports Council International said: “When it comes to responsibilities for deployment and permits and the like — this is still being determined in many European countries and getting answers to those questions is a major priority for the airport industry". <br/>
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EasyJet warns UK airports are still ill-prepared for drones
EasyJet has warned that airports are still not ready to fend off the sort of drone disruption that brought the carrier’s UK hub to a standstill late last year. EasyJet pinned some of the blame for widening first-half losses on the disruption at Gatwick, which cost it GBP10m as flights were suspended for 36 hours and about 140,000 passengers were affected in total. “It’s not enough to see airports are investing in equipment, they don’t have the authority to use them, they can’t train with them,” Johan Lundgren, EasyJet’s CE, said of airport’s drone defences. A spokesman for Airports Council International said: “When it comes to responsibilities for deployment and permits and the like — this is still being determined in many European countries and getting answers to those questions is a major priority for the airport industry". <br/>
