The founder of the Leeds-based airline Jet2 has issued a scathing criticism of UK airport operators, saying they have been “woefully ill-prepared” to deal with the post-Covid rush.
Philip Meeson, executive chairman of Jet2, said the level of preparedness at most of the airline’s ten UK base airports was “inexcusable” and accused them of unwillingness to invest. Leeds Bradford Airport is one of the airports to have seen regular instances of large queues snaking out of the airport and complaints of "chaos" from passengers.
The comments accompanied the company’s preliminary unaudited accounts for the year ending March 2022. They show the UK’s third largest airline narrowed operating losses from £336.1m to £323.9m - during the period in which the travel sector was recovering from pandemic restrictions, BusinessLive reports.
