Bad News For Travellers As Staff At Gatwick Plan To Walk Out

Air travellers face severe delays at Britain’s Gatwick Airport over the August bank holiday weekend after more than 300 baggage and check-in staff voted to strike over pay. Staff at Gatwick plan to walk out on the August 25 bank holiday and again on August 29.

The workers plan to walk out after rejecting a pay offer from airline service firm Swissport, owned by Spain’s Ferrovial. a spokesman for Swissport said it was too early to estimate the level of disruption, but added that the company thought it had made a fair pay offer and would now work at minimising disruption for the travelling public.

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