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...Airlines have benefited from strong demand for travel since the pandemic has ebbed, handing them pricing power even as they have struggled with staffing, a shortage of jets and a dearth of air traffic controllers...
...Alongside Amazon, staffing agencies Adecco, ManpowerGroup and Randstad said they would help 152,000 refugees find work, while Accenture, Generali and Indeed will help to train another 86,000 displaced people...
...Air travel has been tough lately, as plenty of London residents already know. In the US too, airlines are juggling staffing shortages and booming demand....
...US flight schedules were thrown into chaos during May and June after thousands of delays and cancellations caused by staffing issues, bad weather and air traffic control problems....
...For potential tourists, Singapore Airlines’ travel advisories page is a useful tool....
...It continues to rebalance staffing levels between the UK capital and Hong Kong, with less than 200 London-based employees....
...American, United and Delta all acknowledged in their earnings calls that pilot staffing shortages on regional carriers had led to flight cuts....
...“One of the constraints around why we don’t have more [capacity] is concern around staffing,” Bastian said, particularly outside of the US....
...Bad weather and airline staffing shortages — fuelled by the spike in Omicron Covid-19 cases — forced airlines to cancel tens of thousands of flights....
...The emergence of the Omicron coronavirus variant and the reintroduction of curbs on travel and socialising across Europe and the US are taking their toll on the travel industry’s recovery....
...“They’re going to want to fly as much as possible, and the staffing shortages that have been a problem aren’t going away overnight,” said Joseph Rohlena, a Fitch Ratings analyst....
...Tony Capuano, who took over after the death in February of his predecessor Arne Sorenson, said pandemic redundancies had “rattled” workers’ confidence in the travel and tourism sector, prompting acute staff...
...A version of this article was first published by Nikkei Asia on December 15, 2021. ©2021 Nikkei Inc....
...“We were warning them, ‘Hey, this [staffing level] is likely to be very strenuous on us when a weather event happens,’” said Dennis Tajer, the APA’s communications committee chair....
...Flyr, for example, is predicting a post-Covid boom in domestic travel in Norway, a nation of frequent flyers because of the geography of its long coastline....
...Now it is working with lenders to Hertz and Envision Healthcare, a medical staffing firm backed by the private equity group KKR....
...Uber is developing a new short-term staffing business, dubbed Uber Works, that would help to diversify its business ahead of next year’s planned initial public offering....
...Delta said it did not plan to increase staffing, reasoning that automation and digital improvements had sped up the check-in process....
...For the travel company, the natural disasters mean increased costs — for example for extra staffing at call centres, or waiving cancellations fees....
...This more than 50 per cent increase in Facebook’s London staffing comes despite some technology executives warning that Brexit is limiting the ability of UK businesses to hire skilled coders and developers...
...Blaine Hurst, president of Panera says that while automation “does drive some labour efficiencies”, the company has increased staffing in its kitchens and restaurants “because of the higher volumes and demand...
...Uber’s popularity has already begun to fade, with its app on Apple’s Chinese App Store dropping from number one to number 80 among all iPhone apps and fifth place among travel apps....
...Thomas Cook was up 22.8 per cent to 28¼p on Wednesday after takeover rumours fuelled heavy retail interest in the troubled travel company....
...Just a few years ago, resorts such as Aspen and Vail had to look overseas to meet their staffing needs, using recruiting companies in foreign countries to bring over temporary workers to fill seasonal positions...
...16.6 per cent stake in Barnes & Noble, the world’s largest bookseller - Coca-Cola is ramping up its focus on China with a $4bn investment over the next three years - Locums outlines £60m placing as the staffing...
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