July 4th - EasyJet operations chief quits amid flight chaos
Peter Bellew has resigned amid growing anger over flight disruption. Simon Calder explains.
Simon Calder's Independent Travel Podcast · The Independent
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Show Notes
The chief operating officer of Britain’s biggest budget airline has resigned just as the peak summer season gets under way.
Peter Bellew apparently left easyJet on Friday 1 July “to pursue other business opportunities”. For a top operational executive to leave the airline just as the busiest months of the year are beginning shows the scale of the crisis at easyJet.
Since international air travel restarted at scale in March this year, easyJet has struggled to operate the schedule it promised. Thousands of flights have been grounded, affecting hundreds of thousands of passengers.
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