As Eurocontrol has already announced, this summer will be another hectic one for European skies. For the second year in a row airlines and airports will be unprepared for the mass of flights that, in practice, is now identical to that of 2019. That is, the year before the pandemic.
But why is this still the case? It's quite simple really, and it falls under the hyper-capitalist perspective that businesses have today. All companies.
At the first signs of the Covid crisis, what did all the major European airlines do? They fired en masse. Instead of keeping the workers who had built giants like Lufthansa or British, they threw them out. And now? Now those gaps are still there. Maybe a little fuller, but not really. And why?
The reasons are two. Firstly, companies have found that they make better profit margins by paying fewer employees. Secondly, in many cases workers who were laid off by companies have found better, and higher-paying, jobs. In the end we will see the ongoing shortsightedness of companies that will put the blame for their own incompetence on the passengers. That is, on those who create wealth for the companies. Absurd.
Giuseppe Aloe
Editor in Chief
