Airlines have axed 1,500 UK flights this May so far, exclusive analysis by the Mirror has shown. As the Middle East crisis and rocketing jet fuel costs push up expenses ahead of the industry's peak travel period, airlines are grounding flights in a desperate bid to save cash. Around 13,000 flights have been stripped from May schedules across the globe, according to figures from aviation analytics firm Cirium. Of those, 1,468 are from the UK's biggest airports, representing 275,616 scrapped