Airline bosses hire more security for Easter rush

The air travel industry is confident Easter will be disruption-free after recent months of staff shortages and strikes. Hundreds of thousands of Brits will be heading abroad for the Easter holidays via airports such as Manchester, Gatwick and Heathrow. Some airlines have been short of key personnel and Border Force and security workers went on […]

Gatwick hires 400 security staff to ease queues

The UK’s ‘busiest’ airport, Gatwick, has announced it has hired hundreds of new security staff in recent weeks to help ease summer queues. Bosses said 400 workers have been recruited in a move aimed at reducing pressure on the airport, which carries more than 6.2m passengers, as it goes into the busy school summer holiday […]