Due to lay-offs during the pandemic and staff self-isolating, airlines are struggling to cope with demand, leading to airport disruption and thousands of flights being cancelled. MailOnline has more.
Experts said that airlines “are simply unable to cope with that demand due to a lack of resources” and warned that the “nightmare” disruption – of the sort seen over Easter, where hundreds of flights were cancelled by airlines including British Airways and easyJet – could last all year.
BA has axed hundreds of flights up on some routes to the U.S. and the Far East until September, affecting thousands of travellers after it had already cancelled more than 1,000 flights in little more than three weeks.
Routes affected have included from London to Berlin, Dublin, Geneva, Paris, Stockholm, Athens and Prague. The flagship carrier axed another 200-plus flights over yesterday and on Wednesday, affecting an estimated 20,000 passengers.
There are fears that other carriers could also be hit with issues after easyJet cancelled hundreds of flights over Easter.
Kully Sandhu, managing director of Aviation Recruitment Network, told the Express: “In my opinion, it could be up to 12 months before we see staffing at airports back to pre-pandemic levels. Recruitment for people at airports takes longer than roles elsewhere because of necessary, additional security and background checks.
“Routine recruitment campaigns ground to halt during the pandemic and have been slow to start again as international travel has had a number of restrictions on it until recently. That means the recruitment pipeline was cut off and needs to be re-established.
“Aviation has lost its appeal, not only for returners but also for people who have never worked in an airport environment before.”
George Morgan-Grenville, chief executive of Red Savannah Luxury Travel, added: “It is an unfortunate perfect storm and airlines and airports are trying to ramp up again after the pandemic.”
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Why does everything from rises fuel prices, the lockup forcing people to work from home and now this airport chaos preventing foreign travel, all look part of the Green Reset the ecofascists are trying to foist on us?
Hmm, tricky question. I would suggest it is all a massive coincidence; however, on careful reflection, I realise that it is all due to Trump and Brexit!
and Putin!
Surely ‘Putin’ is the universal target of Western Deep States everywhere?
It’s largely attributable to stupidity, especially the stupidity of those dumb enough to believe there was a pandemic, as it became a self-fulfilling prophesy.
The entire ‘pandemic’ and ‘vaccination’ programme could have been avoided if we had all simply refused to comply.
I reserve my disgust for the idiots who got double-jabbed and boostered.
And now they are rushing for their 4th lot of poison. The same people who are stood in the airport queues- just so they can stand in that queue for many. What the last 2 years has shown is that there are a lot of very stupid and very selfish and shallow people who can’t see further than their next trip to Spain. No thought or care for others, no thought or care for the damage being done to society, to children to the elderly to the poor.
Human are selfish by nature. What is your objection to people wanting to travel? Many people have taken the ‘vaccines’ simply to have travel made easier for them – it’s very hard to book plane/ferry tickets and PCR tests to match up, and I’m sure most didn’t fancy a 10-day quarantine on their return to the UK.
There are many elderly and poor people who resent others having money and travelling.
Governments are to blame for this state of affairs. I don’t recall any government minister being ‘taken to task’ for any of this – quite the opposite; they have enriched themselves and their mates.
Vote Conservative, get Conservative!
almost……
“Many people have taken the ‘vaccines’ simply to have travel
made easier for them –made as easy as it used to be before the government decided to get in everyones face.Yeah still wear masks -bloody idiots.
That vom-inducing “A warm welcome to our home” banner…is that a current thing too, at the airports?
Another aspect of a profoundly dishonest Western culture?
That magnificent culture with all its glories (and its flaws), so alive and dynamic, has now become one in which the mealy-mouthed and the insincere thrive.
I wonder if anybody believes the bullshit we swim in – or whether they just go along with it, because swimming against the tide looks like too much trouble by half.
“I wonder if anybody believes the bullshit we swim in – or whether they just go along with it, because swimming against the tide looks like too much trouble by half.”
You have succinctly summarised exactly what school is for.
I’m not convinced that such signage, which is chosen by middle managers with too much time on their hands, has much to do with ‘culture’, any more than the footballers kneeling means they believe in something.
Cultures are immensely broad and can be both glorious and debased.
At the Mexico City Olympics of 1968, there was a genuine “statement” at the medal ceremony for the men’s 200 metres. Those involved believed in something. It was not an empty performance. Three men risked and faced negative consequences for taking part; not reward for virtue-signalling.
Heathrow is basically HSBC-ville, as far as advertising goes.
HSBC = Chinese bank. Who owns Heathrow?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heathrow_Airport_Holdings
Looks like China owns 10% of Heathrow.
Probably advertising for drug dealers. I heard they are very good at laundering large sums of drug money. I’m sure it was as honest mistake though
That must be to incoming Ukranians, who aren’t being housed by all those virtue-signalling MPs because ‘it’s just not practical’.
Sadiq Khan, Mayor of London, wants everyone else to house Ukrainian refugees but won’t have any in his own home. Says it all.
“‘Isn’t enough space’ Sadiq Khan will not take in refugees as thousands march for Ukraine”
“Sadiq Khan revealed he will not be taking in a Ukrainian refugee due to a “variety of reasons” including for protection and security. The mayor of London, who earns £152,734, praised Londoners for going “above and beyond”.”
https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/1586749/sadiq-khan-london-mayor-ukraine-refugee-home-scheme-london-rally-latest-vn
A picture of the virtue signalling London mayor is enough to make me vomit on an empty stomach
£152,734 wage for the verbal diarrhoea he / him / they utter? What a complete waste of money.
The Home of the Rotherham Grooming Gang!
The airport in my region is east midlands, the local councils have been using taxpayer money to staff a ‘welcome desk’ for the new arrivals from Ukraine from early morning till last flights come in.
I like when the Syrians arrived, there are currently no chartered flights for Ukrainians, so theyre being booked onto regular flights, which conveniently never seem to get cancelled.
Apologies, that should be ‘unlike’, not I like!
Easyet. The misnomer from Misnomer Cottage, Misnomer Street, in the village of Misnomer in the County of Misnomer
I’ve avoided them since an uncomfortable flight to Iberia. I’m not the tallest, so I don’t know how those of 6 feet and up manage with the knee-room available. Perhaps Easyjet was responsible for the sudden onset of ‘man-spreading’ a few years ago?
I, too, avoid SleasyJet and RobbingAir.
Our nearest airport is a short taxi ride away, but it’s a Robbing Air hub, so we take a two hour train journey to the next nearest airport.
I can recommend BA. Now where’s that back hander? I could do with a nice free holiday in the Bahamas.
I’m not so sure if cancellations are going to help “to cope with the demand”… It’s a bit like not stocking shops in order to make sure there is no supplies shortages..
Cancellations allow the airlines to control costs by having fewer flights with full capacity.
No surprise. All part of the deliberate Zero Carbon nonsense Green Fascist plan to destroy Air Travel for the plebs.
Agreed.
And the thing is, they aren’t going to invest in reviving Margate, Ayr, Great Yarmouth, and other places that a few generations ago used to be thriving holiday resorts inside Britain.
Mind you, if someone picks their mobile phone all the time, how do they tell the difference between being in their house in a British town somewhere and being on a beach in Spain or wherever? It must all seem much of a muchness to them.
Star, you describe exactly the method by which the propaganda has been so successful – their phones have been picked, as one picks a lock: the algorithms, supposedly to help Joe Public, have been turned against them so successfully that they don’t even realise their smartphones have been ‘entered’ (hacked, in a way).
I think they rely on the authenticity of the tapas they’re absent-mindedly scoffing while checking their meeja.
They can just build holiday sets of St Tropez and Venice – the plebs would not know the difference as long as there was a Macdo on the scene!
That reminded me of that dumb b#£&h Storm off JV, saying how we need to be more responsible when traveling. No doubt the serf class days if travel are numbered.
Oil prices will be part of this.
Another part is that the rulers have the taste of blood in their mouths and they really do NOT like allowing “the plebs” to move around a lot, especially internationally. Anyone who doesn’t appreciate this hasn’t been following much since March 2020.
A third part is that there’s a very high level of scamming and corruption at airports. This applies just as much in Britain as it does in Russia or Ireland or Venezuela. And it doesn’t only apply to known thieves such as Easyjet and Flybe. (How are those “on-flight charity collections” going? Haha.) You could wake up one morning and learn that Heathrow or Gatwick has now officially been put into the same box in your mind as Northern Rock or Enron.
Airport scams involve baggage handling, security contracts, hotels, taxis, every f***ing thing you could mention as well as flight tickets and aircraft maintenance and logistics.
The country’s falling apart. This morning on the radio I listened to an item that suggested that Britain, which on paper has the world’s fifth largest economy and a very concentrated population too, may soon stop being able to cope with the difficulties involved in getting EGGS on to the supermarket shelves.
But we keep getting stories about shortages/difficulties with this or that commodity. I personally don’t believe them because when I go shopping I have no trouble in buying whatever groceries I want. I think the stories are a deliberate plant to keep the gullible on the back foot, uncertain and slightly anxious, so that people are always expecting the worst.
Heaven forbid we should be cheered by anything upbeat – can’t have a happy population, can we?
Warning of shortages causes shortages – that’s why they do it
And a way to make people accept higher prices, thankful that they can still buy stuff.
I noticed that Madagascar still has testing in place before and when you get there. They charge you for the test so me thinks that will not go away fast until they realise how it hurts their tourist industry, by putting a percentage of people off traveling. I know there is corruption in this country bit it is more in your face there, I would worry about a scam to give you a positive test therefore send you to a quarantine facility with the people in on it sharing a cut.
That’s exactly what Indians in India have been doing – claiming people have tested ‘positive for Covid’ and forcing them to go into a ‘quarantine hotel’ (run by their mates or boss).
People who have tested ‘negative’ before getting on a plane suddenly come out as ‘positive’ when disembarking in India.
The Duke of Wellington warned that affordable Rail Travel for the ‘underclass’ would cause revolution once they escaped their cess pit towns and saw how the Landed Gentry lived!
Perhaps they ought to have listened to him. Still – as we can now clearly see – they think they can always turn the clock back.
Upto 30% of commercial airline pilots who took the shots will have to retire, such as Captain Robert Snow of American Airlines this month. He suffered a cardiac arrest 6 seconds after landing his airbus at Dallas Fort Worth, Texas.
People should ask themselves “How do I know if my pilot is compromised? before booking. This will help lessen airport queues, pleasing the green goblins.
People should ask themselves “How do I know if my pilot is compromised? before booking.
They ain’t going to tell you. You’ll just have to risk it and best take a parachute in your hand luggage.
Yes, they are aggresively scrubbing any mention of the Captain’s cardiac arrest from search results. I’m going to pass on flying and take long walks this summer, the James Bond parachute idea will probably be 1st class only.
Not trying to be clever here but parachute is useless on commercial airplanes if you are unable to get out…
As we employ less and less people with skills, and more and more regulatory people to stop work being done, I expect that most human endeavour will gradually cease to exist….
I’m staying right where I’m at.
Well, at least until the covid-police drag you away!
The Chinese have adapted Hazmat suits to double as riot police protection now – how resourceful they are!
We’re planning a trip to the UK for this May/June. Probably by plane. It’s about 1,600 miles to drive straight to Hoek van Holland, about 5 days, a bit of a drag and we’ve done it before, so plane + rental car methinks.
So would I if I was where you’re at!
We’re staying in England this year, not even venturing over a national border.
The only thing is, it does make me feel like we’re helping the resetters to reach one of the targets – no one travelling (except them of course).
Maybe they’ll have sorted it out by the time we can afford a holliday, after we’ve climbed the debt mountain Lockdown left us with.
A year of airport hell? Nope: doesn’t affect me!
Didn’t BA cancel because it didn’t have enough bookings to make the flights economically viable?
But… flights being cancelled so fewer airplanes in the sky, higher energy prices so less energy consumed, higher motor fuel prices so fewer car journeys – all of which means lower CO2 emissions.
All going to plan, then.
We’re driving everywhere instead. That means more CO² for the same distance, but that’s OK, more plants.
We use ferries a lot, but the consequences of a ship’s pilot dropping dead at the helm on the approach to Calais are rather less severe than those associated with the same thing happening on an aircraft.
Here’s what to do if both pilots conk out. Make notes:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ePDl1JNqjpM
Fewer airplanes …but plenty of criss-crossing multiple, wide Chem trails in blue skies! What is really in them?
And how are they getting made if there are no planes? UFOs and alien stealth technology is behind it all, I tell ya!
What about the crop circles? The aliens are crushing our wheat and barley and are determined to starve us to death!
It’s amazing a reduction of thousands of flights but no obvious reduction in con/chem trails.
Hi Catee, the last two years have introduced me to the subject of “chem trails”. Can you point me to any evidence of their being anything other than exhaust and aerodynamic condensation (i.e. small ice crystals and/or water vapour)?
I always imagined they were the result of flushing those noisy aircraft toilets while at high altitude.
No large aircraft is sight, much wider trails than any usual aircraft, -crossing in geometric patterns – nothing to see here …move on!
.Oh and 5 G is completely harmless!
This is an interesting patent https://patents.google.com/patent/US5003186A/en
many others listed to, weather modification patents listed here https://www.geoengineeringwatch.org/links-to-geoengineering-patents/
“but no obvious reduction in con/chem trails.”
Well, I have read someone claim the Twin Towers are still standing but invisible due to ‘alien stealth technology’ so why don’t ‘they’ use this technology to hide the ‘chem trails’?
I’d like to see these ‘chem trails’ with my own eyes. Very few planes where we live – and no ‘chem trails’ … how can that be???!!!
Saw them the other day for the first time with my own eyes …could not quite believe it .
I have never, ever seen vapour trails like them before.
I don’t know how you can still be alive.
Just seen this – we think alike!
Seems like Macron will just get through. When will enough people realise that the Globalists are the greatest threat to freedom and democracy?
After seeing people be virtually tortured by these people throughout the covid shit show and then see the public vote them back in made me realise that the majority are as thick as shit.
Macron’s victory and the exact result was fixed months ago – all he had to do to clinch it was mention Le Pen and Putin in the same sentence (like Hilary tried with Trump) and it was a slam dunk.
Le Pen was born to lose and the French have abandoned all pretence of ‘nationhood’.
You will holiday in Skegness and you will be happy.
Skeggie?
Worst family holiday we’ve ever had at the Butlin’s gulag.
Somehow I can’t see the cunts who caused all this – Fauci, Schwabb, Gates et Al – being impacted by this airport chaos.
“Experts said that airlines “are simply unable to cope with that demand due to a lack of resources”
‘Experts’, eh? Name them. And what exactly is it that they are ‘expert’ in?
Bozo’s is OK he has his own plane, courtesy of the British taxpayers.
The airlines are in serious trouble — they’ve pre-sold vast numbers of flights at rock-bottom prices during the lockdowns, and now that air-travel is returning to normal oil prices have gone through the roof — what’s more, their fuel price hedges are running out.
All they can do for now is limit manpower costs and try to cancel flights so that they’ve got fewer flights with more passengers in each. This is what’s leading to the problems.
It isn’t clear how this problem will sort itself out over the medium term (the supply/demand dynamic will ensure that it is resolved eventually — probably at higher costs with lower provision).
I flew to spain today, no problem
You haven’t provided many details!
Airline? Airports? Tests required? Face mask?, etc.
If the airlines want to still be in business in two years time they need to carefully consider the attempts by WHO to become the only people who decide on how national governments respond to future pandemics.
For WHO read Gates.
One variable not mentioned…serious adverse events from mandated covid experimental biologicals in pilots. Recently, Bob Snow an American pilot had a heart attack a few minutes after landing a plane with a few hundred passengers on board. How many pilots have been grounded due to cardiac adverse events post covid vaxx?
One pilot out of how many thousands?
“How many pilots have been grounded due to cardiac adverse events post covid vaxx?”
It would look like many pilots have NOT been grounded due to cardiac adverse events post Covid vaxx.
Just look at http://www.flightradar24.com to see how many planes are buzzing around the globe.
When did you last fly? I imagine many anti-flying posts are made by those who are too old to travel anymore, and are jealous of those who can.
No commercial airplane crashes come to mind during the past year.
How many Amazon delivery drivers have died from the vaccines and caused accidents?
How many checkout girls in the supermarkets have suddenly keeled over whilst you were showing your Club Card?
Seems like OUR Airports are becoming like OUR NHSino!