Last week easyJet removed for sale the last row on their A319 fleet to reduce the cabin staff requirement. This week easyJet have announced a £1,000 bonus for cabin crew that work through the summer season matching the recent British Airways offer for new recruits; airlines are certainly hungry to get resources in for the peak summer months and demand continues to grow.
To the end of August, a further 13 million seats have been removed by airlines around the world. Interestingly, half of those airline seats were scheduled to operate in May and reflect short notice changes in response to continued Covid-19 outbreaks, in China 5.7 million seats were removed this week through to the end of May (that’s more than all the seats of offer in South Asia this week). More optimistically, the levels of capacity cuts now taking place for the peak summer months are very low, in August less than 1.7 million seats were shaved off capacity which amounts to around three tenths of a percentage…
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