Originally Posted by
OzzyOzBorn
What a bizarre post. Do you remember a certain geopolitical upheaval known as “Covid19”? It was a global pandemic which resulted in governments closing borders, imposing draconian travel restrictions and constantly shifting the goalposts on these. Our own government was a prominent offender, ignoring all pleas from our industry to provide a roadmap to reopening. Airports and airlines were left floundering with no reliable information to work with. To those who claim that airports and airlines should have recruited based on assumptions of normal throughput in S2022, take a look at what happened to those who did exactly that in 2021. PCR testing was suddenly imposed for passengers entering the UK leaving the industry royally *****ed yet again. And financial help for our aviation industry was thwarted beyond the basic schemes open to all by the carbon demonisation cult at Westminster.
But you make no allowance for all of that. You just expect airports to produce reliable forward projections against that backdrop? Or perhaps this is just another example of you working up to your usual playbook. Manchester Airport gets everything wrong and we should all book to fly from Liverpool instead. Am I on the right lines?
Couldn’t Agee more Ozzy spot on
Could expand on the 8_12 week DBS checks timeframe for EVERY new employee going airside from cleaner , to pilot and even building maintenance, massively reduced pool of potential employees due to end of FOM, crap salaries and perceived working conditions offered, government notification of opening up travel in February far too close to the start of the season . All compounded by mass voucher redemptions on an unprecedented scale by a populous ( not expected by the industry themselves) stir crazy from being couped up for best part of two years or more.
Remember many indeed most of the vouchers were issued via a certain few inclusive tour companies and some of the legacies so the redemptive options have effective departure airport caveats and limitations.
Whilst both Easy and Ryan offered vouchers , many of their customers simply cancelled for refunds anyway.
Going back to ending of FOM further impacts GB passport holders ( third country status) in their MILLIONS joining the queues with Russians, North African, Ukrainian and others to have their passport Stamped twice ! and impacting every EU airport at rates NEVER SEEN BEFORE in history !
( travel volumes in the early seventies were a fraction of today)..
Problems have been doubling amplified at the prime IT departure airports Manchester , Leeds, Glasgow, Birmingham, Bristol, Stanstead and Gatwick by the post ending of furlough and resultant mass sackings by the handlers.
At airports such as Luton and Liverpool i’d hazard to suggest the levels of suit cases , and catering requirements ( both organic blob intensive) fewer packages and requirements for longer stay clientele are a fraction of these peers.
Simply put typical Easyjet/Ryanair mini backpack clientele don’t need many/any blobs to check cases , issue boarding cards, porter cases to onto carts or into containers, bar code, drive and load, have catering loaded, delivered trollies loaded onto plane, process passengers with mobility issues ( both Manchester and Gatwick certainly are falling down here and that is a disgrace for those operators and I can’t condone or critique this certain failing)
That same clientele passing through the LCC terminals will probably have fewer electronics and certainly lower risk of carrying levels of offending liquids ( don’t get me started on this nonsense through)
This situation is a perfect storm for the levels of disruption across the industry amplified in the UK by a certain self imposed political event and its associated impacts.
IFC perhaps your knee jerk and simple viewpoint need addressing somewhat.