Jetblue boss says it’s to hire more staff

The boss of US low-fare carrier JetBlue said it is necessary to hire more staff because of the rate at which people are still leaving the industry.

Even if you get the people, they don't have the same experience as someone who was doing that job for 10 or 15 years, so it's going to take longer for them to learn the skills, said Hayes, who said they're going to take longer for them to learn the skills.

He said airlines would approach 2023 more cautiously than they had in 2022, when many airlines, including JetBlue, had to scale back their operations due to the resourcing challenges.

By the end of October, JetBlue will have increased the number of flights it operates between the UK and the US from one to five a day.

He said JetBlue had only been slightly impacted by the Heathrow flight cap which saw the airport limit the number of passengers who can depart each day to 100,000 over the peak summer months - 4,000 fewer than current levels.