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we start with the latest fallout from what has been a recent wave of travel dirspution hitting the airline industry. the chief operating officer of easyjet has handed in his resignation after he oversaw a series of flight cancellations and disruption for travellers in recent weeks. this comes after thousands of easyjet flights have been cancelled some at short notice. so what are we talking about here? it s understood that roughly 10 thousand flights scheduled to run overjuly, august and september have been cancelled. thats s about 6% of easyjet s scheduled flights and the airline says the majority of its flights are unaffected with it continuing to operate up to 1,700 flights a day. but easyjet is far from the only business affected by widespread issues hitting aviation at the moment from staff shortages to industrial action. joining me now is travel expert paul charles chief executive of the pc agency. good morning to you, paul. specifically, easyjet, it was all ....
Low, shares have halved this year alone. low, shares have halved this yearalone. put low, shares have halved this year alone. put that into stark contrast with ryanair, it s great big low cost rival, which has not had so many issues, yes it s cancelled flights but far fewer. it s kept on many of its staff and this is the nub of theissue staff and this is the nub of the issue i think on this, that actually easyjet laid off many of its staff during the pandemic, put them on furlough and then laid them off where ryanair kept many of its staff on and is able to get its operations back up and running far more smoothly than easyjet. it s quite interesting because this c00 that it s quite interesting because this coo that did quit, he came from ryanair only a couple of years ago, moving to easyjet with great fanfare. clearly he is not in handling the past months very well at all and you can put the blame you can put the blame on gatwick and shortcomings at airports when you are an airline. ....