back row, which would be next to the toilets, where the cabin crew are hanging out, making tea and coffee, that row of seats will be removed set number of passengers on board the flight wilful below 250, which allows easyjet to operate those flights on the a319 with just three cabin crew, effectively meaning the crew it has got the number of staff it has got, can go further and service more flights. 0bviously it has got, can go further and service more flights. obviously not needing as many staff. a lot of airlines are trying to recruit but as i say, this is easyjet doing a bit of resilience planning to get through that busy summer schedule. i wonder if other airlines will follow suit. easyjet, as you touched on, is by no means the only airline having problems recruiting staff. absolutely. there have been reports of other airlines, effectively trying to steal their airline staff. the big problem is that airline staff and cabin crew need a certain amount of. certain degrees of clearance
easyjet has been saying and why they are doing thie easyjet has been saying and why they are doing this- are doing this. the a319 by easyjet is one of the are doing this. the a319 by easyjet is one of the workhorses are doing this. the a319 by easyjet is one of the workhorses of - are doing this. the a319 by easyjet is one of the workhorses of the - is one of the workhorses of the easyjet fleet, taking passengers to sunny climes across europe. this morning i had a little look on easyjet s website, the a319 was going to malaga, berlin, dubrovnik, amsterdam. but as you said, lots of airlines, ba and others, are currently recruiting cabin crew because they laid off so many during the pandemic was a big impact for these stock shortages on the airlines ability to operate punctual flights and get back to their busy summer schedule is as demand has researched. easyjet cancelled a whole load of flights last month, as did ba. it battled against covid shortages, and basically took the dec
basically there are delays in getting new recruits by airlines security clearance to be able to work within airlines immediately. so there have been some adverts from airlines where they have gone out and try to appeal to current staff of other airlines to come and work for us, we will give you a certain signing on bonus, such as the one for cabin crew, and it all comes down to the fact that travel has researched in an enormous way since the uk government removed travel restrictions, everyone is wanting to travel again and we want to get back to the beach, go back and see our families in warmer climes, and all of a sudden, we are flooding airports and a lot of them are not ready. so this is one way of easyjet, as i say, resilience planning to get us back on those planes. planning to get us back on those lanes. ., ., ., the actor ncuti gatwa will become the next doctor in the programme doctor who. the 29 year old is the first black actor to take the lead role in the popular science fict
they won t take part unless new brexit trading rules are scrapped. labour hits back at fresh claims over keir starmer s lockdown meal with colleagues saying he didn t break covid rules. more than sixty people are thought to have been killed after a russian bomb hit a school in eastern ukraine. easyjet is to remove seats on some of its planes in the summer, so that flights can operate with fewer cabin crew. six seats on the back row of its airbus a319 fleet will go which it says complies with civil aviation authority guidelines. easyjet and other airlines have been battling covid related staff shortages in recent months, affecting flights just as travel bookings started to come back. 0ur correspondent simon browing is with me now. tell us a bit more about what easyjet has been saying and why they are doing this. the