I have just come back from a (glorious) week's holiday in Barbados. The outbound flight (VS29 on 27/12) was long delayed and Virgin made no announcement of the cause, but word spread that it was a crewing issue.
The number of people in the departure lounge who were murmuring that it must be another drink problem was tangible.
I'm sure that it wasn't anything to do with drink, but the industry should take seriously the effect that stories like this have on the SLF. The airlines are in enough trouble without another
PR blight. If that means testing for only
PR/confidence reasons then that is enough justification in itself.
Will