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Our travel industry is testing us beyond our limits – lack of communication and cancellations are unforgivable
Airport in storm
THE British bow to no one in their capacity to queue — but our travel industry is testing us beyond our limits.
Some would-be holidaymakers line up for hours just to get in the airport, others are hauled off planes at the last minute, while airlines cancel hundreds of flights “to provide reliable services”.
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We saw similar chaos at Easter but this half-term is if anything even worse.
If the mismanagement itself is brainless, the lack of communication with passengers kept in agonising limbo to find out on the tarmac whether their holiday will go ahead is unforgivable.
It’s a miracle there haven’t yet been riots.
Adding insult to injury is the parallel incompetence of the Passport Office, where a WFH malaise allowed a backlog of half a million applications to pile up.
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The PM threatened to “privatise the a**e” out of the Passport Office if it didn’t get its act together. How much worse does it need to get?
Don’t forget, travel bosses spent a year clamouring for ministers to loosen Covid regulations so flights could resume.
The Sun supported many of their complaints about the infuriating hokey-cokey on international travel rules.
Which makes it even more maddening to see the mess they are making of our readers’ travel plans since restrictions were lifted.
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War & appease
IT briefly seemed Germany and France had belatedly developed some backbone when it came to checking Vladimir Putin’s aggression in Ukraine.
It hasn’t taken long for the backsliding to begin, though.
Germany’s Olaf Scholz has underdelivered on his meagre promises of heavy-weapon supplies to Kyiv, while France’s preening Emmanuel Macron continues to flog a dead horse by appealing to Putin’s better nature over the phone.
Their rank self-interest in implying Ukraine be carved up to appease Mad Vlad is not only amoral, it is also futile.
You cannot negotiate with a monster.
Arming Ukraine’s brave troops to the teeth to rout the invaders is the only hope.
Bad will bunting
IF you have plans for the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee, we hope you’ve factored in the terrifying possibility of flapping bunting.
Certainly Portsmouth Council are taking no chances, with a diktat that all these mini-flag menaces must be hauled down if winds exceed 23mph.
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You’d think a bastion of naval triumphs could brave a windspeed classed as a “fresh breeze” on the Beaufort scale but no doubt the killjoy behind the ban was delighted with their day’s work.
We just hope they didn’t give themselves a round of applause — the resulting gust might have knocked them over.
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