A report, Flight Crew Furloughs, is critical of the government, the CAA and individual airlines’ conduct during and after Covid.
It said “typical responses” included one from a captain who observed the government had been “woeful”. “They did not care at all. Quite happy to throw us on the rubbish heap… Aviation and transport in general was an easy win for ministers wanting to look like they were doing something, even though it is well proven that international travel restrictions were completely useless after the virus was detected here.”
Another accused the government of “populism over science and reason at every turn”.
They added: “Having used us as such, they then failed to provide any additional…