Jet2 and Eurostar cut summer flights and trains

Jet2 and Eurostar have announced that they will be cancelling some summer flights and trains in 2020 and 2021 due to the coronavirus pandemic. Separately, pilots union Balpa has said that airline Jet2 is to make 102 pilots redundant. The airline will be reducing its flying programme for 2020 and 2021. A spokesman for Jet2 said that the airline was facing "complicated" challenges relating to the coronavirus crisis and "changes on an almost daily basis", which had resulted in the need to reduce its flying programme. "Sadly, the overall effect of these reductions has been the need to propose a number of colleague redundancies across our business." He said the company had "every confidence" that it would "bounce back from the unprecedented demands currently placed on the company" but it did have to make "difficult decisions in the current climate". Balpa general secretary Brian Strutton said he was concerned about the "knee-jerk" way in which airlines like Jet2 had been responded to falling customer numbers due to the pandemic.<br/>