Travel firms should have been ready for post-Covid surge, UK minister says

Disruption caused by surge in post-pandemic holidays could have been avoided, arts minister says

The travel industry should have been better prepared for a surge in post-pandemic holidays, a government minister has said, after scenes of travel chaos in airports ahead of the half-term break.

The arts minister, Stephen Parkinson, a former adviser to Theresa May, said that disruption was causing a lot of distress" for people who had not been able to get away for several years because of the pandemic.