{"id":159006,"date":"2022-06-07T19:43:31","date_gmt":"2022-06-07T19:43:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/precoinnews.com\/?p=159006"},"modified":"2022-06-07T19:43:31","modified_gmt":"2022-06-07T19:43:31","slug":"what-a-joke-airline-chief-assails-boris-johnsons-covid-response","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/precoinnews.com\/world-news\/what-a-joke-airline-chief-assails-boris-johnsons-covid-response\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018What a joke\u2019: Airline chief assails Boris Johnson\u2019s COVID response"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>London:<\/strong> A leading airline industry official on Tuesday blasted British politicians for criticising long airport lines and canceled flights as COVID-19 cases eased and in turn assailed Prime Minister Boris Johnson\u2019s own response to the pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou look at the UK, Boris Johnson, he highlights one of the reasons why he should continue to be prime minister as being the way he handled the pandemic. What a joke. They should have done a hell of a lot better,\u201d Willie Walsh, director general of the International Air Transport Association (IATA), told the Paris Air Forum.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/static.ffx.io\/images\/$zoom_0.125%2C$multiply_0.4431%2C$ratio_1.5%2C$width_756%2C$x_0%2C$y_0\/t_crop_custom\/q_86%2Cf_auto\/ab4e19f637ec752bcd9880d87e35b3d9d7a7c4e9\" height=\"224\" width=\"335\"><\/p>\n<p><span>British Prime Minister Boris Johnson boards a plane bound to Stockholm, at the London Stansted Airport.<\/span><cite class=\"ojLwA\"><span>Credit:<\/span>AP<\/cite><\/p>\n<p>Downing Street did not immediately respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n<p>Under Johnson\u2019s leadership, Britain had one of the best vaccination rates among G7 countries and invested billions in a job support program. However, it also endured one of the worst death tolls and economic impacts.<\/p>\n<p>Johnson survived a confidence vote on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this month British Transport Secretary Grant Shapps told airlines to stop selling tickets for flights they cannot staff, while Deputy Prime Minister Dominic Raab recently told Sky News that carriers should have recruited more.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/static.ffx.io\/images\/$zoom_0.098%2C$multiply_0.4431%2C$ratio_1.5%2C$width_756%2C$x_0%2C$y_0\/t_crop_custom\/q_86%2Cf_auto\/1f85d8f465be199ef746feda4c5e20d3936a49fc\" height=\"224\" width=\"335\"><\/p>\n<p><span>Travellers wait in a long queue to pass through the security check at Heathrow in London.<\/span><cite class=\"ojLwA\"><span>Credit:<\/span>Getty<\/cite><\/p>\n<p>Both men serve in Johnson\u2019s Cabinet.<\/p>\n<p>Walsh said airlines could not have recruited staff earlier this year when British traffic was down and industry feared new potential COVID-19 measures.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou have the politicians saying airlines should have ramped up sooner. No, they shouldn\u2019t,\u201d Walsh said on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAirlines would have gone out of business had they done what these idiot politicians are saying they should have done.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A snapback in air travel led to long lines at some British airports, as well as in Amsterdam, Dublin and Toronto, as airport managers struggled to fill jobs.<\/p>\n<p>Walsh, a former British Airways and IAG boss, has attributed congestion to delays in getting clearances for airport staff but said the situation is manageable and limited to some airports and airlines.<\/p>\n<p>Walsh argued aviation should have been more forceful in challenging government-mandated COVID-19 border closures which he said did little to curb the virus.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Reuters<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><b><i>Get a note directly from our foreign <\/i><\/b><b><i>correspondents <\/i><\/b><b><i>on what\u2019s making headlines around the world. <\/i><\/b><b><i>Sign up for the weekly What in the World newsletter here.<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<h2>Most Viewed in World<\/h2>\n<h3>From our partners<\/h3>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theage.com.au\/world\/europe\/what-a-joke-airline-chief-assails-boris-johnson-s-covid-response-20220608-p5arwf.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>London: A leading airline industry official on<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":159005,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23056],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.7 - 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