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Mark Banham

Jet2 boss slams airports chaos for damaging summer holidays

A Jet2.com aeroplane

(Picture: PA Archive)

The boss of budget airline and package holiday operator Jet2 launched a scathing attack on the aviation sector today slamming their “lack of planning, preparedness and unwillingness to invest” as sun starved passengers flocked back to carriers.

Executive chairman Philip Meeson, said the carrier’s “10 UK base airports” which include Stansted had been “woefully ill-prepared and poorly resourced” for the volume of customers they could reasonably expect, as have “other suppliers”, such as onboard caterers and providers of Airport PRM (Passengers with Reduced Mobility) services.

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