Norman_Conquest
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I posted the other day that a friend of ours was paid off during the pandemic and they have asked him to go back on a lot less money.The airports laid a lot of their staff off and don't seem to be in a rush to re/recruit. Recruiting again could be a problem due to Brexit in parts of the UK where there are more jobs than people. Many of the smaller regional airports could benefit - the problems seem bigger at the bigger airports (London, Birmingham, Manchester). Customers are pushed toward the big airports in the UK in my opinion but others will know better than me as I don't fly a lot. Cancelling flights could be problems with pilots, cabin crew. I suspect training was stopped for nearly 2 years for pilots. Cabin crew pay has been cut over the years, so its become a low paid job and hence airlines will struggle to recruit. Unions warned this would happen. Again taking pilots and cabin crew from Eastern Europe EU countries helped, but was not the long term solution and drove wages down.
I thought he worked for Jet2 but the wife just informed me it is Virgin Atlantic.