When JWT announced last week that it was shutting down it was a tough blow for its remaining 25 staff. It helped bring travel to the masses with flashy adverts with bikini-clad sunworshippers,But for many who remain tenuously employed elsewhere in the aviation sector, or for the thousands whose jobs are already gone, the closure of JWT is only a tiny part of a much bigger tragedy that is unfolding for the industry. But the real story in the sector is the one unfolding brutally and relentlessly week after week at Ireland’s empty airports. This was starkly underlined last Thursday when DAA, with less comment than the JWT story received, released the worst annual figures in its long history. We’re a total outlier on mandatory hotel quarantine, we’re a total outlier in terms of the travel ban.

Source: Irish Independent May 02, 2021 01:30 UTC