A pilot for British Airways has spoken about the travel chaos that has been seen at UK airports saying there is "no chance it will be sorted this summer". The employee of the airline was speaking to MirrorOnline anonymously. They claim that a large number of senior staff are poised to leave due to low morale. They also warned that pilots are suffering from burnout.
After what they saw as mismanagement during Covid-19 and the 'knee jerk' shedding of huge numbers of staff, BA was struggling to get its services running the way they did before the pandemic, they said. and they predicted more flights will be grounded this summer, on top of the 10% of services BA has already cancelled from March to October this year.
"A pilot I was speaking to the other day said he hadn't been worked this hard in 15 years at the company," the BA employee told the Mirror. "We're full-on at the moment. There are not many happy people right now. It is a perfect storm. An airline isn't a charity, they're there to protect the shareholders, but it's been pretty cutthroat.
