Staff shortage is affecting the aviation industry in UK and thousands of travellers are believed to have been stuck abroad after flight cancellations over the weekend. The problems are taking time to resolve and Advantage's chief executive warned there were "no guarantees" the situation would improved by the summer.
"Thirty per cent of my staff are now dealing with calls from very anxious holidaymakers who have bookings, whose travel plans, as far as we know right now, will take place, but they are anxious because obviously they're hearing all [about] the disruption," said Julia Lo Bue-Said.
Bue-Said said airlines were already employing new staff, many of whom were already undergoing training, and that she hoped the industry would be ready by the busy summer period.
However, Mike Clancy, general secretary of Prospect, a union representing staff working in airports and across aviation engineering, said recent cancellations were having a "really damaging impact" on people's confidence. "It would be difficult to give anybody the confidence at the present, that we are going to be okay by the school holidays in July," he said.
