. I needed to try and transfer my flight from an internal one to Frankfurt, and from there home, to a direct one with my boss. The request was done politely and, dare I say, efficiently and I was very impressed with the Lufthansa service. We waited two minutes for security and three for passport control. Then we boarded and the plane sat there and sat there because, the pilot explained "there is only one guy to load all of your bags". 45 mins late for take off.
It's not just Brexit.
We have face to face meetings coming back in our company and I had a trip to Amsterdam planned two weeks ago. It didn't happen because BA cancelled the flight at the last minute, as I've posted on here earlier. It turns out, however, from speaking to Dutch colleagues that the problem was at Schiphol which cancelled huge numbers of flights. All flights to Brussels were also cancelled on one day last week while Oslo has had similar problems due to a ground crew strike.
I'm just back from a conference in Munich and talking to partners, clients and competitors we also had stories of queues so large at Stockholm that it took four hours to get through, with the queues for T4 having to be routed through T5. A number of German exhibitors took the train rather than internal flights and one guy was delayed by 10 hours, missing his opening speech, not because of problems here but with his connecting flight at Dublin. Dublin airport has also seen huge security queues and it is impossible to buy priority security passes or speedy boarding if you're leaving from there.
I have to say Munich airport was a bit of an outlier. The place is superb anyway with a vast number of gates distributed in an intelligent way and conference centres and shopping centres integrated within the complex - there's even a brewery
Much of this is easily googlable, before you go on about sources. You're retired, I'm sure you can spend a bit of time on it.
It's not to say Brexit isn't a factor. No doubt there have been people let go from UK airports and airlines who are no longer in the UK or eligible to work here. However, the main issue seems to be that pretty much every airport and airline in Europe let go too many staff and many have now found better jobs, with their replacements struggling to get security clearance.
I'm sorry to point this out, but you are quoting all sorts of things for which you have no reputable source and have been completely unable to validate.
I gave four sources of senior people within the Airline industry explaining the impact Brexit has had on the industry. You immediately started posting figures for vacancies within the airline industry, none of which, despite being asked, you have been able to validate with any source whatsoever
I'm off for dinner, but if you can find any sources whatsoever to validate all these claims that you make, I'll be more than happy to look at them tomorrow.
Have a good night
You may want to have a read of my post two up from this
A different take on the “is there a bar in Sydney showing the game” look at me post. Excellent work!
well seeing as he's stuck at the airport already thats a pretty pointless statement isn't it...??
Surely it is never pointless to commend someone on a good piece of work?
It's a marketplace, just like any other business. They'll charge what they think the market will bear, and no less - why should they do otherwise?
Sounds counter-intuitive, and not the quickest option to be sure, but judging by the figures in your post, couldn't you save significant amounts of money by flying from Perth to Brisbane via Bali, booking each leg as one way flights?
turning a 4 hr flight int a 10 hr mission and going through 2 international borders doesn't really suit everyone , however your idea may work although i think its Australian airport fees , levies and taxes along with Qantas's penchant for the big rinse that elevates domestic prices to that extent.
one horse race mate , there is no competition.