Flight Centre’s corporate travel research group says the sector growing capacity levels are sustainable despite employing far fewer staff than pre-pandemic.
The global aviation industry has replaced less than a third of the workers it let go during the pandemic, but’s corporate travel research group says the sector will still manage to resolve the many operational issues that have curtailed post-COVID-19 travel and schedules by the end of the year.
“It [rehiring] is definitely a gradual process,” Ms Burke said, citing the many background checks required for airline workers. “But, as a travel industry, I would say we should at the end of this year look a lot fatter with headcount.” Virgin culled 3000 workers after US private equity group Bain Capital picked it up out of administration, and it too has recruited hundreds of staff to stem delays and cancellations.
“Internationally, the pricing has been quite volatile and that’s down to just the sheer demand and the constraints airlines have had with scheduling,” she said. “Also fuel, operational costs, inflation – all of those elements have really forced the airlines’ hand with those price hikes.”
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