British Airways has announced in Britain that it will cancel an additional 650 scheduled flights this July alone. Since the start of the pandemic, around 30,000 UK airport workers have either been made redundant or resigned, and if you add those absent on sick leave, the images of thousands of lost bags, long delays and huge queues can easily be understood , but also last-minute flight cancellations.
The situation is so dire that even the help of the military has been proposed to meet the increased needs. A proposal that was rejected by the British government, which, however, asked the airlines to clarify by Friday which flights will not take place, and also to submit proposals for the definitive solution to the problem.
It is worth noting that the problems mainly concern the airlines British Airways and Easyjet, whose Chief Operating Officer resigned on Monday as his company was forced to cancel 742 flights last month alone.
Speaking to APE-MPE, the head of the EOT office of the United Kingdom & Ireland, Eleni Skarveli, was reassuring about the flights concerning Greece.
“At this point in time, and following our contacts with the UK market, we are not concerned about the cancellation of any flights from the UK due to the lack of staff at the airports.
The cancellations do not concern all Greek destinations and for now travelers are being transferred on other flights to Greece. Of course, this means inconvenience for them. Especially when they haven’t been notified in time by the airlines.”
As Ms. Skarveli clarified, “no one expected such a large extent in the problem, which arose as one of the unexpected effects of the pandemic. In any case, the flights of the airlines from Britain to our country have increased a lot, compared to in 2019”.
However, serious problems are also observed in other airports in Europe, such as e.g. those of Sweden, where SAS pilots have gone on strike, but also in Belgium, where Brussels Airlines was forced to cancel around 700 flights.
In Spain this weekend the employees of the companies EasyJet and Ryanair will go on strike, while at the Charles de Gaulle airport in Paris, as well as at airports in Germany, the employees are preparing for mobilizations demanding increases in their salaries.
Source: RES-MPE
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