The absence of an essential member of crew has resulted in the cancellation of a number of sailings on Wightlink’s Yarmouth service this weekend.
Wightlink has confirmed that the 07:25, 09:45 and 12:00 sailings from Lymington and the 08:30, 10:45 and 13:05 sailings from Yarmouth have been pulled on Sunday 3rd October 2021.
The cross-Solent operator apologises for any changes to your travel plans.
It comes just days after a mechanical issue resulted in even more cancellations on the West Wight ferry route.
If I were them I’d train a few essential members of staff to prevent letting customers down…
Quite agree what happens when this ‘essential’ member takes leave ?
In these days of the wonderful greedy public just looking for ‘someone to sue’ it could be almost any staff member who was trained in some dubious first aid course, fire course, food handling course, danger materials course or mental health awareness etc.
Most of us at work have attended courses NOT because our employers are ‘oh so caring’ but because they are frightened of being sued ‘should’ some rare event happen if they hadn’t done so. Yet most of the knowledge is forgotten soon after leaving the course, but ‘they’ the bosses are covered. Such is the world we now live in.
maybe if they spent some of their profits on having extra staff on call in vase this happens we’ll have less cancellations. Got to remember, if they cancel a boat and fill the next one up they make more money!!! Profit of service is not a service.
Pathetic. Zero resilience in their business plan (if they even have one), it seems. How embarrassing for Shi*elink.
once again we have ferry cancelations ,maybe they could not fill up the ferry spaces because of the ferry cost .or the profits gone to share holders ,every time the ferry companies make an excuse it is either a machnicle faliure, or work staff , maybe they should invest in training staff for a standby crew ,or a standby ferry incase of faliure. Now is the time to invest in a Tunnel for the sake of our sibblings . there is plenty of companies on the Island or the even mainland to invest ,and may i say this ,if the tunnel were to close for a accident or a fatality, yes it will be for hours, strict rules can be applied, inside the tunnel