Black Series for EasyJet. After canceling hundreds of flights in April, the low-cost airline, which is still hit by staff shortages, said on Monday it was removing six seats from each of its A319s in the UK to limit its staffing needs . ,
“This summer, we will be operating our A319 fleet in the UK with a maximum of 150 passengers and three crew members on board”, EasyJet said. Typically, these flights can carry 156 passengers.
Not enough employees and too much demand
These adaptations pertain to the 60 aircraft that form the company’s British fleet of A319s, which indicates that they operate in accordance with civil aviation regulations in the United Kingdom, employing one cabin crew member for every 50 seats.
In early April, EasyJet had to cancel hundreds of flights – an average of 1,600 daily flights – mainly because of employees who were sick with COVID-19. A complex decision to make at a time when the aviation sector, particularly hit by health restrictions in the past two years, has seen an improvement in demand.
Low-cost airlines are also facing recruitment difficulties, as airports and airlines in the UK, which cut their staff during the pandemic, are now all looking to hire staff at the same time.
Between £535 to £565 million in loss
The last six seats on an aircraft are often reserved for the last days before departure. So the company expects the impact on its capacity to be limited during the summer. Reducing the number of seats on some aircraft “is an efficient way to operate our fleet this summer while building the flexibility and flexibility of our operations where we expect to return to near 2019 flight levels”, says EasyJet Huh.
The company indicated in mid-April that it expected pre-tax losses of between £535 and £565 million for the six months ended March-end, down from the same period in 2021, and a strong recovery in bookings. welcomed.
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