AMSTERDAM/PARIS/DOHA ¨C After 21 years as a service agent at Air France, Karim Djeffal left his job during the COVID-19 pandemic to start his own job-coaching consultancy.
¡°If this doesn¡¯t work out, I won¡¯t be going back to the aviation sector,¡± says the 41-year-old bluntly. ¡°Some shifts started at 4 a.m. and others ended at midnight. It could be exhausting.¡±
Djeffal offers a taste of what airports and airlines across Europe are up against as they race to hire thousands to cope with resurgent demand, dubbed ¡°revenge travel¡± as people seek to make up for vacations lost during the pandemic.
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