Europe’s Aviation Crisis Spurred by Exodus of Younger Workers
- Staffing shortage particularly severe in under-40s category
- Airlines and airports face huge task luring new recruits
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An aviation staffing crisis that disrupted flights across Europe this summer is most acute among a younger category of workers who largely left the industry during the coronavirus outbreak, according to official data.
Only about a third of the European Union’s air transport workers were aged under 40 as of the first quarter, figures from the bloc’s Eurostat statistical office show, a much lower proportion than before the pandemic.