Airports have told travellers to prepare for queues over the next three weeks amid warnings the winter holidays will be busier than Easter and labour shortages will not be quickly resolved.
Airports cannot guarantee baggage and security services will be fully staffed over the school holidays and warn labour shortages may persist as they caution travellers to prepare for queues over the next three weeks.
Across Australia, passenger numbers will be between 80 and 100 per cent of pre-COVID levels over the July school holidays, said the Australian Airports Association James Goodwin, the association’s chief executive, said expensive housing in coastal regions such as northern NSW was making it hard for regional airports to find and keep staff, and that Australia needed to boost immigration to help ease labour shortages.
“Airports and airlines globally are experiencing huge demand as travellers return to the sky as pandemic restrictions ease,” a Virgin spokeswoman said, adding that leisure travel over the June 13 long weekend had been about 20 per cent busier than the same long weekend in 2019 before the COVID-19 pandemic broke out.
“For people travelling with Virgin, this will save a lot of time as they’ll then use the smart security technology in T4 which means people don’t need to remove laptops from their bags,” an airport spokeswoman said.than over Easter, cannot guarantee that security lanes will be fully staffed at all times despite a jobs fair last week.
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