Brexit is destroying Britain

Montexy

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No problems Bordeaux to Dublin last week, daughter walked in checked in, flight on time, no queues at Dublin. No airport chaos at either end. Pictures from the uk same day Chaos!.
She was lucky not to be travelling two weeks earlier - Dublin had such long queues 1,000 people missed their flights (euronews) and for a small airport like Dublin that's pretty catastrophic. Bit like the current queues in Belgium and the Netherlands - Brussels has cancelled all outgoing flights due to their strike action. Its not just the UK that's having a bad time of it at the moment.
 

bobk

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stafford
She was lucky not to be travelling two weeks earlier - Dublin had such long queues 1,000 people missed their flights (euronews) and for a small airport like Dublin that's pretty catastrophic. Bit like the current queues in Belgium and the Netherlands - Brussels has cancelled all outgoing flights due to their strike action. Its not just the UK that's having a bad time of it at the moment.
Skirpol is bad too , must be brexit
 

le bon paysan

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Livestock Farmer
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Limousin, France
She was lucky not to be travelling two weeks earlier - Dublin had such long queues 1,000 people missed their flights (euronews) and for a small airport like Dublin that's pretty catastrophic. Bit like the current queues in Belgium and the Netherlands - Brussels has cancelled all outgoing flights due to their strike action. Its not just the UK that's having a bad time of it at the moment.
But not every day. Schiphol was a knock on effect of UK cancelled flights. How do you get on an aircraft that isn't there because it never left a different country.
 

br jones

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brexit again
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Covid lays bare staffing crisis in Europe’s hospitals Chronic under-investment means workforce shortages are constraining intensive care provision An intensive care unit in Mulhouse: rising Covid-19 infections coupled with staff shortages have forced seven out of 13 French regions to trigger hospital emergency plans © Yves Herman/Reuters Share on twitter (opens new window) Share on facebook (opens new window) Share on linkedin (opens new window) Save Leila Abboud in Paris and Sarah Neville in London DECEMBER 23 2021 80 Print this page Receive free Healthcare costs updates We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Healthcare costs news every morning. Exhaustion and burnout. Patients at risk in understaffed hospitals. These and similar stories of woe were told by many of the roughly 6,000 nurses, doctors, and ambulance drivers who protested outside the health ministry in Paris this month. Their diagnosis was brutal. The French healthcare system has suffered chronic under-investment and mismanagement for decades, they said, and the Covid-19 pandemic had pushed it past its limits, leading to a staff retention and recruitment crisis. Waving a banner demanding “More beds! More staff!”, George Palomas, an ambulance technician from Lille, said some hospitals in his region had been forced to close emergency departments at night and weekends because of lack of staff. “Sometimes we have to drive an extra 20 or 30 kilometres to get a patient to hospital,” he said. With France in the middle of another Covid-19 surge, even before the full impact of the highly transmissible Omicron variant has made itself felt, the stress on the health system and the people who work in it is growing. The country is far from alone in facing a workforce crisis. Dr Natasha Azzopardi-Muscat, a senior World Health Organization official who works on health systems in Europe, said staff shortages were the overriding problem for hard-pressed health services. Some European countries, such as Germany and Austria, started the pandemic with more intensive care beds, relative to population, than others. According to the OECD, Germany has 28.2 hospital beds per 100,000 inhabitants and Austria 21.8 against a European average of 14.1. However, Azzopardi-Muscat said, many disparities in infrastructure had been addressed between successive infection waves. “The one that was not resolved was workforce . . . You don’t make health workers overnight,” she added. In France, rising Covid-19 infections coupled with staff shortages have forced seven out of 13 regions to trigger hospital emergency plans, allowing them to delay operations, call in private sector reinforcements and cancel staff holidays. Hospital cases have increased steadily since late November to reach about 7,000 new admissions a week, a figure that, thanks to widespread vaccination, remains lower than the 10,000 to 15,000 at the height of previous waves. But government officials have warned that the system could still be overwhelmed in the coming weeks unless Omicron proves to cause milder disease than feared. In the greater Paris hospital system about 1,000 nursing jobs remained unfilled out of a total of 18,000, forcing the closure of 13 per cent of its beds as of late November.
 

Homesy

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Location
North West Devon
When Easy jet cancel flights, guess what, people are waiting in those flights destinations to board the return flights. It's not rocket science.
Michael O'Leary as it is this morning...
This chump has previous form. He congratulated Britain on voting remain once voting had closed on the referendum. What he really means is Ryanair won't pay decent enough wages to get back the British staff they sacked and are now demanding some cheap foreign labour instead.
Jog on O'leary. If you want staff offer better wages.
 

le bon paysan

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Livestock Farmer
Location
Limousin, France
To be an expert on travel you're the least travelled person I know , ha ha ha
Really, some have never left their county.
Let's see, France, Belgium , Italy , Switzerland, Portugal X 2, Tunisia, United States , France X 3 and bought.
Had shares in Mick's Taxis as the wife farmed this place while I flew back and fore until the AHA Tenancy buyout was completed 11 months after signing for this place.
 

le bon paysan

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Livestock Farmer
Location
Limousin, France
This chump has previous form. He congratulated Britain on voting remain once voting had closed on the referendum. What he really means is Ryanair won't pay decent enough wages to get back the British staff they sacked and are now demanding some cheap foreign labour instead.
Jog on O'leary. If you want staff offer better wages.
Really, and there's me thinking they're a Dublin , EU, based company.
Mind you, I'd want better than 1200 a month basic and 4,40 an hour for flight time only.
 

robs1

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le bon paysan

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Livestock Farmer
Location
Limousin, France
Yep more due to brexit obviously
Baggage handlers in Spain and Italy just voted for strikes, so have Ryanair cabin crew based in Spain. Just waiting for French air traffic control to strike and the UK won't have a problem as no-one will be going on their holidays👍 U
 

Homesy

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Location
North West Devon
Really, and there's me thinking they're a Dublin , EU, based company.
Mind you, I'd want better than 1200 a month basic and 4,40 an hour for flight time only.
And O'Leary is moaning he can't get staff ???
What does he earn ?
Baggage handlers in Spain and Italy just voted for strikes, so have Ryanair cabin crew based in Spain. Just waiting for French air traffic control to strike and the UK won't have a problem as no-one will be going on their holidays👍 U
You'll probably still blame Brexit.
 

Ashtree

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Dublin airport, virtually collapsed in on itself, on the last weekend in May, due to staff shortages. They had cut back too severely on staff, due to the pandemic, expecting as the whole travel industry did, that travel would take another year to fully recover.
I‘ve been to EU destinations three times since from Dublin, and it seems to be pretty much back to near normal. My queue time yesterday was about 40 minutes. I saw similar times in Lisbon and Berlin.
UK airports from the news reports, do seem to be struggling pretty badly. But that’s ok. I guess the people are perfectly fine with that. As they qeue up for endless hours, that warm glow of “sovereignty” radiating from Brexit, does help sustain them through the situation.
 

robs1

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Article says retirements , layoffs pre covid and major carriers poaching regional pilots.
Layoffs during covid not pre covid, perhaps all that french wine is affecting your ability to read english, . You know like all airlines and airports world wide sacked staff, schiphol said they expect huge summer delays due to shortages of staff.
 

Martin Holden

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Trade
Location
Cheltenham
Dublin airport, virtually collapsed in on itself, on the last weekend in May, due to staff shortages. They had cut back too severely on staff, due to the pandemic, expecting as the whole travel industry did, that travel would take another year to fully recover.
I‘ve been to EU destinations three times since from Dublin, and it seems to be pretty much back to near normal. My queue time yesterday was about 40 minutes. I saw similar times in Lisbon and Berlin.
UK airports from the news reports, do seem to be struggling pretty badly. But that’s ok. I guess the people are perfectly fine with that. As they qeue up for endless hours, that warm glow of “sovereignty” radiating from Brexit, does help sustain them through the situation.
You do talk a lot of nonsense sometimes. Infact the more you wrote it the more you’ll believe yourself.
 

robs1

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Baggage handlers in Spain and Italy just voted for strikes, so have Ryanair cabin crew based in Spain. Just waiting for French air traffic control to strike and the UK won't have a problem as no-one will be going on their holidays👍 U
Oops more brexit problems
 

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