Wightlink has been forced to cancel 6 of its car ferry sailings on the Fishbourne-Portsmouth route this morning (Wednesday).
The cross-Solent ferry operator says that unexpected crew sickness has led to the decision to cancel 3 sailings from Fishbourne, and another 3 from Portsmouth Gunwharf.
It’s said that efforts to arrange cover at short notice, to maintain a planned timetable, have been unsuccessful.
It’s been confirmed that the 06:40, 08:40 and 10:40 sailings from Portsmouth, as well as the 07:40, 09:40 and 11:40 sailings from Fishbourne, have all been pulled.
A spokesperson for Wightlink has said:
“We understand how disruptive this can be and are contacting affected customers on these sailings with revised travel information and support options.
“Thank you for your understanding and patience, we’re working hard to minimise the impact and get things back on track as quickly as possible”.
UPDATE @ 08:13 – Wightlink has been able to reinstate both the 10:40 sailing from portsmouth and the 11:40 sailing from Fishbourne, having sourced very short notice cover.
This is outrageous! We should install speed bumps along the loading ramp.
Great idea, good to see you are learning from my
comments.
Keep up the good work.
In other words, shitelink have absolutely no multi-tasking staff, and management got their jobs through a university degree, not from actually doing the work on the ships which would enable them to actually work on the bloody things! Sack the workers, employ university leavers and WE pay the price. Party in a brewery springs to mind…
Why is this allowed to happen? no where anywhere else would this happen..sad and pathetic.
Imagine you had flights or special appointments to go too all to be canceled or ruined at great cost..
This is the company that wants to cut staff yet do not have a margin for staff sickness. Everything is about profit and nothing about service.
Management don’t know one end of a ship from the other. Unless and until management have worked their way up from deckhand to Chief Engineer or Captain, things will never improve. Blasted accountants, cretinous graduates with degrees in surfing and the like and serial failures who make a career out of wrecking companies and moving on repeatedly with golden handshakes are why this country is being driven into the ground.
This never used to hsappen
Why do they not have staff on an on-call rota like most large organisations ?