Travel bosses never stopped moaning about how hard their industry was hit by the pandemic. Yet just as British holidaymakers stand ready to give them a leg up, they shoot themselves in the foot.
The half-term Jubilee break and the forthcoming summer holidays seemed to be as much of a surprise to these people as the iceberg was to the Titanic – another foreseeable travel disaster.
And Unite’s general secretary Sharon Graham warns in the Sunday Mirror that bosses are so clueless that the chaos could last into next year.