Airline industry bodies criticise 'very vague' travel plan

Airline industry bodies criticise
# 14 April 2021 17:45 (UTC +04:00)

A government report outlining plans for international travel from England as lockdown eases has been criticised as a "bitter disappointment to everybody working in the industry", APA reports citing BBC.

Brian Strutton, general secretary at pilots' union Balpa, tells the Commons Transport Select Committee "there is no specificity" in the Global Travel Taskforce report "at all".

"As a result many airlines have already told us that they will be curtailing the plans they had for the summer," he says.

Simon McNamara, who leads airline trade body the International Air Transport Association's UK and Ireland activities, says the report is "very vague".

"I think crucially, the approach to reopening, we believe, is still too complex and too cautious, I'm afraid," he tells the committee.

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