Travel chaos

Travellers continue to express their dismay at the chaos that has engulfed the UK’S airports over the Jubilee weekend. Even those lucky enough not to have their flights cancelled at short notice are experiencing massive delays or long queues for basic items like food and water in terminals. Nobody seems to be capable of getting a grip of this scandal, in which holidaymakers are being denied services that they have paid for in good faith. One of the causes is a shortage of staff, with companies struggling to return to full capacity after two years of lockdowns and varying levels of restrictions on international travel.

But the problem of unfilled positions is not isolated to the travel sector. Britain is in the extraordinary situation of having more open vacancies than there are people who are