the aviation sector is struggling to recruit

Airlines are struggling to recover from the Covid-19 crisis. Easyjet has just announced that it will sell fewer seats in its aircraft during the summer, for lack of staff to take care of all the customers, indicates the journalist Paul-Luc Monnier, present, Tuesday, May 10, on the set from 12/13. The company wants to hire 1,000 pilots in five years, Ryanair 2,000 in three years, while Air France will recruit 100 pilots from the summer.

On the ground, the situation is also complicated. “Long queues are dreaded this summer. All airports are short of arms”, explains the journalist. At Roissy and Orly alone, 4,000 positions are to be filled. Why such a shortage of labor in the air sector? “Traffic is picking up again (…) stronger than expected, enough to destabilize the companies and airports which have cut their workforce during the Covid”, says Paul-Luc Monnier. Finally, the working conditions, with in particular staggered hours and unattractive salaries, repel candidates.