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The things businesses tell us...
After holiday business TUI announced they are cancelling 6 flights a day until the end of June, & they actually cancelled flights today for which the customers had already checked their bags and had been at the Airport 6 hours....
"We believe this is necessary to provide stability and a better customer service at Manchester Airport."
That's better customer service?
"We believe this is necessary to provide stability and a better customer service at Manchester Airport."
That's better customer service?
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Staff shortages “lie at the heart of the crisis”. Unions say thousands of airport workers were made redundant during the pandemic and have not been replaced.
A government source also blamed the aviation sector. “The simple fact is that airlines and airports overcut staff during the pandemic, ignoring the fact that the billions of pounds of aid – including furlough – handed out by the government was meant to protect those very jobs,” they said.
Lose, lose for customers.
Henry started it " You can have any Colour like as long as it's BLACK
You have 4 friends?
I volunteered to be his fifth friend will you be his sixth .....
I bought one of these in 2009 on the strength of this add but it didn't do any of these things. Didn't like going up the Kerbs or over the speed humps. sob!
A lot of people have voluntarily left the travel industry in the last 2 years.
Further numbers were laid off.
Many companies in travel are struggling to recruit, and certain sectors of travel can't just hire staff to start work immediately due to the nature of the role (flight attendants, airport security etc)
Increased sickness levels due to Covid/isolation (this had a big impact at Easter)
It was only a few months back when international leisure travel was still massively reduced and well down on pre-pandemic levels, so it's really gone from one extreme to the other in a relatively short space of time since the turn of the year, making it impossible to accurately forecast.
It's quite easy to point a finger at any given airline or airport and claim ''why didn't you hire 10,000 staff back in February in preparation'', but the reality is really not quite that simple. The travel industry often hangs on a knife-edge in relation to global Government pandemic decisions, and Omicron really threw a spanner in the works of the industry recovery. Hiring large numbers of staff when there was so much uncertainty could've been reckless (hindsight is of course a beautiful thing).
Undoubtedly there are big problems, and I rarely have sympathy for airlines when they mess up, but this situation was always likely to happen and it was basically unavoidable.
It's damage limitation now for TUI/Easyjet/BA/airports etc, until it all blows over.
Edit to add....I've read in a few places that some airlines are already concerned about the inevitable downturn in passenger numbers after summer, and so are reluctant to recruit too many new staff that they then might not need come September/October time.
The biggest shareholder in TUI is the Mordashov Family.
https://www.marketscreener.com/quote/stock/TUI-AG-470539/company/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexei_Mordashov
To get round the sanctions:
Natwest is to close a further 32 branches this year, including 11 Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) sites. The latest confirmed closures will be on top of the 24 branches already earmarked for closure in 2022. This means that Natwest will close a total of 56 sites in 2022, 26 of which are RBS branches.18 Feb 202
Manchester Airport need 400 ground staff.
The have found 100 so far, but they cant start work until they are security vetted.
The vetting process currently takes around 3 months.
So nobody will be starting anytime soon.
https://www.mirror.co.uk/money/breaking-barclays-halifax-lloyds-monzo-27118977
Ive used my Monzo card 3 times today and it worked every time.
Any good?
Though I've not made it my main bank as I reckon in the future they may charge for some of the features.
And the other banks are starting to copy Monzos ideas anyhow.
I'll look into it.