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He added that his pay doesn't keep pace with the cost of living and that this has put a strain of his family's finances.

He said engineering projects could cope with "complex planning rules", but there was a "growing inability of planning processes to keep pace with applications".

Despite supply chain headaches, seat manufacturers are in a good position to clean up, if they prove themselves able to keep pace with industry requirements, says Ms Garcia: “The demand is there from passengers – and the demand is there from airlines.”

“We’ve had a very long period where maintenance has failed to keep pace with inflation. You end up with a perverse effect that the students from the lowest income backgrounds end up having to take out the largest maintenance loans.”

“In a large number of cases, universities borrowed money, believing that the undergraduate tuition fee would keep pace with inflation,” explains Vivienne Stern.