Chaos in airports


Fletch

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Haven’t heard of problems Newcastle and was fine for us last month , but been well documented about Gatwick and Manchester and saw on news loads at Dublin airport missed flights , all down to a lack of staff . I know staff have to be recruited and trained but surely this should have been started few month back ?
 
Haven’t heard of problems Newcastle and was fine for us last month , but been well documented about Gatwick and Manchester and saw on news loads at Dublin airport missed flights , all down to a lack of staff . I know staff have to be recruited and trained but surely this should have been started few month back ?
Recruiting is still really difficult. I work in a different industry (Nissan related) and we can't get enough bodies through the door nevermind people who are a decent standard.
 
Haven’t heard of problems Newcastle and was fine for us last month , but been well documented about Gatwick and Manchester and saw on news loads at Dublin airport missed flights , all down to a lack of staff . I know staff have to be recruited and trained but surely this should have been started few month back ?
Manchester airport says it takes 2 months to fully train the staff and they recruited a load of them a little while ago so hopefully up to speed soon. But it's not as straightforward as just finding an extra 50 people to start tomorrow.
 
Manchester airport says it takes 2 months to fully train the staff and they recruited a load of them a little while ago so hopefully up to speed soon. But it's not as straightforward as just finding an extra 50 people to start tomorrow.
Mostly down to the extra background checks required for anyone who works in an airport. Plus operators laid off a load of people who have gone on to find other jobs.
 
picked up the wife and daughter last sunday night from manchester t2, landed 7.15pm, i arrived 7.50 pm, left at 9.00pm after waiting for bags and got hit for £20 to park..standard fee apparently, annoying thing is it was a sunday evening and barely anybody about, i figured they are short on baggage handlers and they were probably working all 3 terminals
 
Why do they need to hire so many people? Is this a Brexit thing?

I’d say Brexit certainly has had a negative impact. Where the pool of qualified people was counted in 100,000s, it’s now significantly less and the workload is larger based on two years of no activity due to Covid. Perfect storm in many ways.

I never thought I’d have to manage resource problems to this extent where companies are falling over themselves to place contracts.
 
I’d say Brexit certainly has had a negative impact. Where the pool of qualified people was counted in 100,000s, it’s now significantly less and the workload is larger based on two years of no activity due to Covid. Perfect storm in many ways.

I never thought I’d have to manage resource problems to this extent where companies are falling over themselves to place contracts.
Same here Kev. Have had to knock back a couple of massive (for us) jobs as we can’t get the staff quick enough.
 
Haven’t heard of problems Newcastle and was fine for us last month , but been well documented about Gatwick and Manchester and saw on news loads at Dublin airport missed flights , all down to a lack of staff . I know staff have to be recruited and trained but surely this should have been started few month back ?

I flew from Manchester on Thursday just gone, flying from Terminal 1 which apparently has had all the issues so was shitting my pants thinking we wouldn't make it to our destination.

Don't know if it was because it was a Thursday flight or the flight time being 11am, but no queues really and was through to the gates/restaurants etc in about 30 mins which included a bag drop.

May have got lucky but was sound.
 
Just came in through Stansted a couple of days ago. It took two hours to get through. The main problem was those automatic passport/face recognition scanners. A lot of them were out of service, and others just plain didn't work. I am always directed (eventually after about 5 attempts) to the manual booths. The automatic machines don't recognise my face as being a face
 
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