Welsh cabin crew hang up their uniforms after a turbulent ten-months of Covid-19

The coronavirus grounds planes and pushes Welsh flight attendants into unemployment and other job sectors following mass redundancies

Cabin crew have unpinned the wings from their uniform and placed them in retirement, switched makeup and a neck scarf for pyjamas and a laptop, to endlessly scroll job vacancies in a desperate attempt to regain an income following the devastating flight attendant redundancies across the UK.

Welsh flight attendants have been left struggling to keep afloat during the challenging times of unemployment after the aviation industry plummeted following the coronavirus pandemic, forcing former cabin crew into other job role sectors.

Covid-19 has caused mass redundancies across the UK since March 2020 and continues to puncture the aviation industry.

The UK Government acknowledges the “unprecedented strain” on airlines in a special report commissioned this summer, as airlines were forced to tighten their belts and make further spending cuts.

In a study with 84 flight attendants, 58 said they had changed sectors or aimed to change careers to the NHS since being made redundant from their role as cabin crew between March and December 2020.

‘Cabin crew prepare for landing’

Careers Wales reported 426 people in Wales were employed as cabin crew in 2019.

Since the pandemic, figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) report show employment in the transport industry across the UK fell by 12 percent, leaving many Welsh flight attendants without an income.

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