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Matt Cooper: Ryanair fills seats as competitors’ Covid cost-cutting fails to pay off

Airline operators are cancelling hundreds of flights and disappointing thousands of travellers as airports such as Gatwick struggle to keep check-in and baggage-handling services running. But it didn’t have to be like this

Gatwick Airport, where the race to the bottom involved in outsourcing and cutting costs is biting hard. Picture: Shutterstock