Hello and welcome to today's independent travel podcast. It's Monday the 14th of July and WISAWK has a new managing director.

She is Yvonne Moynihan. She has been with the company for a number of years in other roles but is now in charge of the airline, which if you're not familiar with it,

it's the third biggest European low-cost airline after Ryanair and EasyJet, whoever they are.

Congratulations. How are you finding the new job?

So far, so good. So I started in the peak of summer.

And at the moment, we have an exceptional operational performance.

So we've had no cancellations, no major delays.

So the operation is running smoothly.

So we're bringing our passengers to their holiday destinations on time, which is our priority.

How he managed you to do that?

Because he's been an awful summer.

We had earlier in July French air traffic control, of course, just saying we're here and we're not going to come to work.

And that's going to wreck the schedules from the UK to everywhere from Portugal to Greece.

We've also seen strikes by aviation workers in Italy, causing a number

of cancellations to Venice and Rome and Milan and so on. And there's a general shortage of air

traffic controllers around Europe, which is slowing everything down. Add in a few summer

storms and you, with the greatest respect, have probably the worst

job in Europe. Actually, from our network in the UK, we weren't as impacted as the rest of our

group. But generally speaking, we've had very good planning. Air traffic control strikes

generating out of France are not a new thing, unfortunately.

It's becoming an annual event.

But we have managed to not cancel flights or predominantly not cancel flights.

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