and people have visited balmy on and the week since the holiday, him all home to look was you couldn't the last what we want to improve amenities for our visitors, for instance, the road, the hotels and shops in the area, availability of transportation and 1st aid services but not everyone is benefiting the head has been driving from balmy on to cobble for 4 years. he's happy about the piece insecurity, but fears that it has cost him his job as more people are able to travel in their own cars. so give me a call to make him in the past, we used to take around $1500.00 to 2000 and afghans a day for about $17.00. now we bailey makes 6. many people are hoping to talk to bon will. capitalize on the new found interest and balmy on, and turn it into a tourist destination. now that the group that made it nearly impossible to travel to places like this for 20 years and finally in power. this is what someone with peace and security looks like and on, on thousands of families coming from all over the country to enjoy the wonders of

the national part. but the big question now is, how will all of this impact the economy of me on a province those ignored for more than 20 years by the former government? let's see, al jazeera, balmy on, ah, this is i was there, and these are the top stories. wildfires have been raging across western europe, burning thousands of heck as far as 14 people from their home. counting heat wave is fueling the places in france and spain and temperatures are expected to hit record highs and britain this week. much of the warm air affecting europe has moved out from north africa where they're also being wildfires and morocco fires have been ravaging remote woodland areas in the north killing. at least one person. ukraine's president laudermill landscape has sacks 2 of his most senior law enforcement figures. ivan backing off was the head of ukraine's intelligence agency

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and what does it mean for the travel industry? this is inside store. ah. hello, welcome to the program. i'm burnett's overcrowded airports council flights expensive tickets. welcome to the summer holiday season. in the northern hemisphere, airlines have been forced to cancel thousands of flights due to strike action, staff shortages and weather cues of passenger snaking through some european airports are a familiar sight. some airlines are advising people to turn up the check in 4 to 5 hours. early passenger volumes are almost pre pandemic levels. but staffing isn't airlines. an airport, a struggling to re hire people. they laid off during the height of the pandemic,

leaving workers in a strong position to bargain for better pay and working conditions. so some airports have told airlines to cut the number of seats they're selling. they have been delays from the americas to australia, but it's passengers traveling to and from major european airport, who are enduring. the worst of the calles shipple airport in amsterdam is one of the airport hardest hit. more than half its flights have been delayed and hundreds canceled in july so far. london heathrow airport has decided to cap the number departing passengers to 100000 to day to try to minimize delays. apple workers are also striking in the german cities of hamburg and frankfort. the german government is fast striking these as the workers from turkey to bridge. the gap travel delays caused by strikes are also hitting spain, france, belgium, denmark, norway, and sweden. we spoke with willie walsh, the director general of international transport association. he says it's the

managers of the airports, not the airlines who are to blame. it's a huge disappointment to the industry that airports are restricting the amount of flights that can be operate as are the number of passengers that can travel through the airport. you know, it's really disappointing because airlines want to maximize the benefit of this recovery, given the financial damage that has been done during the last 2 years. but i think from a consumer point of view, it's very important that we can give certainty to customers that their flights will be operating. and i think these measures while deeply regrettable will be able to provide that certainty. the, let's bring in august in london is david les amounts, he's an asian analyst and consulting editor, flight global in portland, in the united states is susan cybert. she's a national geographic travel photographer to travel extensively for the national

geographic expedition program. and joining us from the farmer, sho, in the u. k. is alex mc cherice, an aviation consultant, an author of ation briefing. welcome to you all. david, i'll start with you easy question. whose fault is all this? why we queuing forever and missing off lights council that the last minute i think you could say the thought is with coded firmly itself. and what cobra did to the industry the, the industry last billions of dollars over that period. it was a long period. never has there been such an extended shut down of this industry? in fact, i'm not sure about any other industry during that time, a whole lot of changes, sometimes they had to either low or even lay off lots of employees. and the big problem is that when they tried to take them back on again,

when demand wrapped up in the airline started trying to supply it, a lot of people decided they didn't want to come back. alex airlines blame airports . are ports of blaming the airlines are putting on too many seats. who's to blame? it's definitely a blame game. that's the consensus. and of course, you know, we, everything does lead back to kind of, if you follow the trial. but who says the decisions that were made in the times that really are key in knowing how different aviation market ultimately ended up 2 and a half years. and it was airlines in 2 and a half years later. and i say that because, well, the same storm has ultimately taken hold of the entire edition sector, not every ad pool airline and policy company. we're in that many have been able to kind of this down is doing with better financing with, with fewer redundancy,

leaving them in a better face by now the actual recovery is well underway. others not so lucky such as the u. k, whose aviation market suffered the worst of all of europe. and of course, that had an impact on the redundancy that then follow it. susan, you've probably spent most of your life in q a port hours post pandemic travel planned out for you, a frequent traveler. and i've really been trying to play a little bit like a, a poker game really because there's so much uncertainty. there's a lot of conflicting news reports. so i was always looking my flight well in advance. i always made sure to have plenty of time in between my connecting flight . i tried to make my flight as long haul as possible because here of us, the pattern that seemed to emerge as the airlines started to function once more

were that the shorter hall flights were the ones that were being most frequently cancelled. so it was sort of a strategic move to try to you know, be able to get to some place on time, which is a job requirement of mine. i did have my luggage last for the 1st time ever. and that was unfortunate. but, you know, given all things considered, i feel very fortunate to, to have been able to use my experience in order to get from point a to point b without very much hassle. did you get your box back in, in i actually did. yes. finally they, they, they just gave them to 8 days and charles de gaulle airport speak fluent french than david. he throws decision to count passengers at 10000 a day, very controversial. and it's been pushback, emberts, although emerson's now agree to deal with he throw other airlines as other apples

have tried, similar is not a pot and you're going to see other other other airlines also trying to adopt yes, i think this is a very interesting this will come from confrontation, heathrow made its announcement and said, look, this is what with the resources, we have the people we have, this is what we can actually supply. so please don't ask for more than that and plan your flights and your, your passenger loads according to. busy what we can actually deliver you emirates was the 1st to shout. you know that this was far too painful. they really didn't want to do it. and then as you had wasn't very far behind but, but shortly they oversee, sat down in around the desk. i didn't see this happening, but because about that, about 24 hours later, a truce was observed and the airlines to come to the conclusion, there was no no point in demanding more than he throw was honestly able to supply.

and alex, frankfurt also wants to reduce the flights coming in, and now a lot of times is the greater the apparently shipple has a similar limit on passenger numbers. will you see other allies where we see other ports doing the same of the busier we will because we haven't yet hear that real peak of the season. and that is when really the students in the pupils under break up on that extended summer break. and that's going to have a demand meet. what is a section that is incredibly sure. and that's when it's in that kind of, that's when the accused. and that's when we see all of it, but teach from around the world. but most in europe with many passengers facing the mess disruption as travel rebalance, and i think that's what we have to keep in mind. things most moving out from mid september, almost. but it really is just the state of the actual sector right now, and all roads lead to staffing levels. alex, so does that mean the end of this summer ritual for some of looking for those last

minute flight bargains is bargains? is that something you're not going to be able to do this year? well, there is, there are, there are still deals to be found. of course, especially with budget car isn't sure. but if we're looking at a more kind of long missionary way, we know that the cost of travel is going to increase, not least because of the, of the all price the impacts of the war and ukraine. and so there are other factors that ideation is inherently exposed to because if you think before the pandemic we, we had periods of actual disruption and that it was pandemic related. and not very much of it was that was staffing levels related. so, you know, and travel site is daily challenge from several different external factors. but as i say, the expectation is that things will smooth out over the northern hemisphere. time and winter. but of course, there are other fees just looming recession and the answer, as i said, are we only talk a david,

how much are all price is particularly affecting the price of our tickets? i know some airlines of, of hedge don't know prices, but what effect is that having well, oil prices are having a big effect they always do on airline says. but the other thing which is, which is definitely going to have an effect, is when the airlines and the efforts are hiring or re hiring stuff that they laid off before or trying to tempt new ones. an awful lot of the jobs will have to be better paid than they were before. i mean, it's very easy to rice, off baggage handlers, as, as being sort of humble creatures at the bottom end of the food chain. but they are incredibly important. and if, say, reckons having time to think about it over the, the pan demik, they really didn't have a job that was worth going into a lot of them decided did they do something else, which was better paid? so it's not just fuel prices. the airlines are going to have to pay more for people,

especially those in humble jobs, which nowadays the price is being what they are, includes cabin crew will come back to the staffing issue in a 2nd position. i wanted to ask you into, in terms of the cost of flying, which must factor into your budget for your trips. how. what sort of impact of having you have you really noticed a change in the cost of travel? i have, i have noticed change. however, it, it hasn't been as substantial as i was sort of reckoning that it would be i've always had to, i mean it's just a company policy that we fly economy. and so part of the game that i play with the airlines is trying to figure out ways you to maybe spend just a couple of extra $100.00. and again, because i, i can sort of, i can have that discretionary decision. i might get a one sort of tiny bump up in class and therefore be able to carry on an extra bag

or be able to choose my seat and. and that again, will make me able to get on that flight if it happens to be over booked because i haven't bought the very bargain. fair it. but yes, yes, there has definitely been a price increase and it was very pronounced on my last flight. back from, from france to portland, i bought, i had to go to france twice during the month of june. the 1st ticket was about a $1000.00 less expensive than the 2nd ticket, even though they were identical roots. so alex is for travelers like susan for all travelers. are they? are the airlines now the ones that hold holding the power of the consumers are the ones that are having to pay more for that tickets. whereas once upon a time, there is a lot more competition pre pandemic. well, there is, there is still competition out there. one of the most remarkable things of the,

of the parent and it cannot be immediate optimal. is it actually, we didn't really lose many airlines, not, not nearly as many as that were initially predicted when kind of it was fast about . and that is because of the government really, i could, you know, and i went into the hosting these carriers. so competition is definitely that that price increase is probably more likely to, with the gradual moving into the summer peak. and that's where we see those kind of key differences. and of course, as i said, kind of longer time, we know that the cost of that travel with increase that's happening in parallel to a cost of living car it to a fluctuating but most the high oil price and so on. and alex david touch before on the, on the issues of stuffing at air or ship all one of the wills, busiest, 58000 stuff for the moment. 10000 less than before the pandemic. where if they were of the gone, how long does it take to recruit them back in particular security stuff? how long do they take to get trained and through the system for people understand

the process? well, i wrote a column about this in late january kind of stuff to speaking to several airlines and apples. it became very are in many street that the stopping levels were not anywhere near adequate to deliver. what was the summer 2020 to schedule the most airlines were selling. now what we've seen is we've seen all this disruption as airlines attempting to deliver a schedule that was that was mostly in line with 2019 with, without anything, even kind of adequate in terms of stopping level and, and the industry has to re face this now i don't which it is now, but it can be too late. you know, raise is, we're in the summer season now and, and all that. and that's causing a problem. the stuff that was neat, we need to have people either returns, ideation many have left. but who said we need to make go to many, many of these jobs that's a paid because there are so many people that you speak to realize after being made

redundant, that actually they can and more a supermarket. but the difference is they don't start at 2 30 in the morning. they don't have this going to get to deal with when the airline technical. and so i'm so you know, this is a conversation a hard on the station that the industry has to have with itself in order to make it more attractive to bring those was back into the sector. this of course has been complicated by factors such as that of course, because we've lost so many you nationals here in the u. k. who deposit in the timing? many of them a significant majority working in the education sector. david, you touched on almost before ally our airlines waking up to the spot that, that stuff that they need to pay the stuff more of the brakes are defect in the you k, which is compound of issue of course the but the course your of the stuff in crisis, indeed there is a stuff in crisis and in the and not a low skilled or, or semi skilled, which is, you know, a lot of a lot of what airlines need,

you know, security, or at least the ordinary security workers. cabin true. it's a 70, it's a skilled job actually. but then you know the race that semi skilled but these people are desperately needed. you cannot get them overnight and getting getting baggage handlers. they may not need huge skills, but they do need security clearance because they work s side. and so if you want to get somebody back who hasn't been security clear, it can take months to, to actually get the clearance through. because so many people are applying that the, the agencies, the government agencies that, that check, security clearances simply can't cope with the demand. and susan covered 19 hasn't gone away. we all wish it hard, but it's still looking now what, when you're traveling internationally, what do you still finding? you have to do to make sure you've got everything you need before you can. you're allowed on the plane because many countries still have restrictions. i always try

to stay as safe as possible and my goal is to not get sick. and right now, i know more people who have gotten ill with cove it than at any other point during this entire pandemic. i think that's the result of a combination of the relaxed masking rules on the route i was in france. the day that the united states dropped the requirement for a 24 hour negative test. prior to flying back to the states from no international locations. and so there's a direct correlation between dropping the mask mandates and the testing requirements. and the jumped up in the number of cover cases, but also the fact that it is mutating so quickly. i mean it's, it's a, it's being allowed to, to kind of go unchecked and we can't keep up with the vaccinations because of mutation. so it's, it's a very complicated situation and i just wear

a hospital grade and 95 mask at all times. and that's what you know and try to stay as far away every single flight i have been on the last 2 months has been absolutely packed for obvious reasons. but i knock on wood have not contracted it. i test regularly and the doesn't survive managed to avoid it. so it was on a 1st comma, left and, and travel at the moment. my alex, a lot of those people leaving yorba heading to further afield, heading to the developing world. often the north africa, the sup content of africa, asia, those places dependent on tourism. how are they being affected by these delays in your has it putting people off going no, really no, we are seeing now. thankfully the reopening of those really restricted markets, as markets that were close. most of the pandemic in southeast asia, asia, across continent and so on. and of course of those countries that are rely on

tourism, that's good news for them. there's been met and hence demand one in 3, u. k. households for example, would ordinarily travel as a valid for the some of that you can be sure they are definitely using, but i, i just want to go back to that previous on you were making this season, which is that actually we still have to keep having this conversation about it because it's still causing havoc, no, just with the public, but with this doping levels that are, you know, the stuff that i want to show up in the 1st place. we have so many airlines declaring an unusually high rate is all citing code. that actually is another condensation that the issue is not having with the government or across the world, but probably would be more sensible to which is that is in everyone's interest. a transmission of is being low because we see the moment there is a new sub there and so on. that immediately translates into stops and which in

turn causes payoff for that stop the rate would turn up in the 1st place. and david, sticking with fame after the summer rush is over, do you think demand for flights will hold up? i mean, we've got, we just talked about corona virus but warn you. cry and high energy prices are aligns hope. hopefully they'll keep up demand after the holiday september onwards. but all the, all the signs are that demand is keeping up, which is, which is the problem the, the airlines can't supply what's required. euro, which has had a particular problem, is still that the airlines are only able to supply will be the combination of the airlines. and the airports are only able to supply at the moment. 85 percent of pre pandemic demand. and yet the sign czar, the, the demand is going to be more than 3 times demik. and i really don't see

a reduction coming below the reductions, the seasonal reductions that you normally get. i don't see a particular problem with, let's say northern hemisphere winter. i think that the demand will hold up on the airlines will still, i think um, till maybe some next year they'll still have varying degrees of problem with meeting the demand. so the airlines do have the width hand, and i don't think that the cheap bargains are going to be around very much for you . alix. could it get worse before it gets better? my thinking this initial, the media here is now we can kind of late july, the message is to expect even more disruption have bad trouble. dodge, with such as demand really doesn't create a line with kind of the time, right? but with everything scheduled out from him, but onwards, and this is reflecting heat statement, for example, they go back, have 100000

a day, but that's only valid and to around september 12 i think a shows that most of the factors on the thing. okay, well we're slow, we're running out of time, but before we go, i'd like you're all frequent travelers. so for people heading to the airport, the summer susan, i'll start with you can just sit on how to manage, manage airports about manage your travel, but what do you do? i would, i would simply try to find tickets that have may be a little bit more perks to them than rather than risking saving a couple of $100.00. because if you get delayed by any length of time, it could have an incredible domino effect on your entire trip. and also just to keep insurance in mind. its it really came to my rescue a couple of times to buy a policy and they really aren't that expensive,

particularly if you get trip interruption insurance. and david, what about that would be my, my chip. i'd go with susan about about don't go for the cheapest. you can go for the cheapest. that gives you the right to counsel your ticket so that they do, you know, sort of 20 to 30 percent on, but it may well be worth it. and it's very much easier to negotiate with the airline afterwards. if you're, you are on one of the flights that gets cancelled. and alex last bit of advice from you is a frequent traveler show. if you're checking in luggage, pop an apple pie board and other another brand similar in order to be your luggage in real time so that you can try to get that help because bags are being lost all over the place. carry hand luggage if you can, without checking in and doug right to the, to early this message being pushed about arrives b, i would really often that achieve much to 3 hours is usually enough because they are up and not even a brilliant thanks to all our guests for the excellent advice,

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