The head of the Irish “low cost” company Ryanair, Michael O’Leary, urges the British government to show “more common sense” in post-Brexit migration policy, amid the shortage of workers in the airline sector.
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More visas for European workers would help ease disruptions to air travel, he says. Outgoing Prime Minister Boris Johnson, who led the Brexit campaign, says Britain’s exit from the EU should allow the UK to move away from cheap EU workers to hire more Britons at better pay. .
But job vacancies are hovering at record levels and companies are struggling to recruit in sectors that used to use this foreign workforce, such as hotels and restaurants, distribution, agriculture, etc. They have to bring in workers from ever more distant countries that fail to fully compensate for the hundreds of thousands of Europeans who are missing, compared to before the pandemic and Brexit.
The aviation sector in particular has been the scene of scenes of chaos in recent weeks, with some companies canceling thousands of flights, sometimes at the last minute, largely due to a lack of ground staff.
Source: BFM TV
