Emirates has rejected Heathrow Airport’s demands for airlines to stop selling summer tickets, calling the move “unreasonable and unacceptable”.  The airline accused the airport of having a “blatant disregard” for customers after it capped passenger numbers to 100,000 per day over summer. Emirates said the airport now faced “an ‘airmageddon’ situation due to their incompetence and non-action”. Heathrow said it had no choice but to introduce a limit on passenger numbers. “For months we have asked airlines to help come up with a plan to solve their resourcing challenges, but no clear plans were forthcoming and with each passing day the problem got worse.” Emirates said it was given 36 hours to cut passenger numbers, and therefore flights, and was threatened with legal action for not complying. “This is entirely unreasonable and unacceptable, and we reject these demands,” it added.(BBC)…[+]