He said that Ryanair is “in a different position from the likes of BA, who … did get rid of too many people in a number of instances”. The national officer for aviation, Oliver Richardson, told MPs: “It almost exactly corresponds the companies that carried out the most redundancies and the most significant changes in terms and conditions, and those that didn’t.” The Unite union said airlines that had laid off most staff, such as British Airways and easyJet, were facing the most cancellations now. “We have bounced back but we are a complex industry with lots of parts … Recruiting with very, very short notice is difficult.” We had two years of virtual non-operation. Karen Dee, the chief executive of the Airport Operators Association, told MPs: “The industry was decimated. The airlines and the government were encouraging people to travel again, and we think they’ve just underestimated the capacity issues and the shortages.”Īirports, unions and recruiters said the abrupt scrapping of the UK’s stringent Covid-19 travel restrictions, a lack of certainty over jobs and the early end to the furlough scheme had contributed to problems in rehiring. She said: “Both the industry and the government need to shoulder the responsibility for the chaos that we’ve seen.
The instructions came as aviation industry representatives and consumer groups told MPs that the government should shoulder some of the blame for the recent disruption at airports, with a lack of support to the sector having worsened the staffing problems.Īt a hearing of the Commons’ business, energy and industrial strategy committee, Sue Davies, head of consumer rights at Which?, said many customers had been put in an “awful situation” and seen their rights “blatantly flouted” by airlines.
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