cmyden’s post is bang on.
This isn’t just about the unvaccinated employees who were let go, if it were you’d likely only be seeing similar delays at airports to what people typically experienced at peak times such as around Christmas.
When you lay off huge portions of your frontline staff(vaccinated and unvaccinated) due to the industry essentially being put on hold, those workers aren’t going to just sit around waiting to get called back to work when they can go out and get a job that pays the same elsewhere because they have bills to pay. They get comfortable at their new jobs and then decide not to go back to an industry still shrouded in uncertainty.
What you’re left with is a massive shortage of workers in an industry where even at the best of times hiring a single employee isn’t as simple as doing an interview and telling them they can start tomorrow, it can take weeks or months at minimum for security reasons. I don’t work in the industry but have close ties with some people who do and they all say the same thing.
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