Faced with an August of extraordinary tourist activity, Ryanair and Easyjet have canceled thousands of flights for strikes and lack of staff. Although it can be interpreted as one more episode of the recurring differences between companies and employees, in the circumstances we live in, we should pay special attention to this resounding display of social unrest and, in turn, ask ourselves about the meaning of low cost companies. in its current formulation.
The financial crash of 2008the covid-19the supply problems post-pandemic and now ukrainian war show the weaknesses and dysfunctions of an accelerated globalization and deregulated, which has served a single purpose: the systematic reduction of costs. Weaknesses that, concealed in good times, are shown in all crudeness when conflicts emerge. For this reason, Europe is considering redirecting globalization with a greater interventionism that facilitates the return of the industry and, thus, guarantee the supply of essential goods, even at a higher production cost.
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In the same way, it is nonsense that race without limits for reduce the prices of certain public services, as is the case with air traffic. Everything has a price and forcing its reduction leads to deterioration of the service and, worst of all, to subjecting employees to unworthy conditions. Which is what airline staff rightly complain about.
In the case of ‘low cost’ aviation, the job compensation and also the Conditions of service, despite the fact that the price of flights is more expensive. Tourism will not collapse and it should not be a drama for anyone to fly less frequently. The fundamental thing is to put an end to the senselessness of an unrestrained coming and going, endured in the terrible conditions of the employees of the sector. Either we begin to sensibly redirect the excesses of recent decades, without fear of short-term consequences, or we will see how we end up.