Leeds Bradford: General Airport Discussion & Updates

[Snackbar]

The airport may have made a loss, but this is for a specific reason - carefully planned capital investment to enable the airport to grow substantially in the medium term. The loss has been planned for, and the airport has been profitable in preceding years, this isn’t a struggling business.

They are however like most other businesses having to contend with a significant increase in employment costs as a result of recent political policy changes together with a massive increase in business costs which seem to have hit the airport sector hard…….Hopefully for both employees and the employer the situation can get resolved without the need for strike action which in the longer term will benefit neither party…..

 

[White Heather]

If there are no ATC staff then surely we will be shut. All we need now is the planning application to go 3 sheets to hell in a handcart and really will be screwed.

It may be just the more junior ATC staff with senior controllers who earn a lot more, unaffected. Maybe they are in a different union.

The press will be delighted to make out the airport will be effectively shut even if it's not true. All they do is cause huge upset for thousands booked to fly over the three days.

 

[Finger66]

The number of potential different airport strike threats we get news of at work seem to end up causing very little disruption in the grand scheme of things so I tend to believe LBA rather than the usual bad press the airport tends to suffer at any given opportunity

 

[Len Fish]

The Unite press release mentions they are seeking pay parity with other (unspecified) airports. As AENA also operate Luton and Newcastle does this infer employees there doing the same jobs are paid more or is this just a Union red herring?

 

[LBAYORKIE]

The Unite press release mentions they are seeking pay parity with other (unspecified) airports. As AENA also operate Luton and Newcastle does this infer employees there doing the same jobs are paid more or is this just a Union red herring?

I read that they wanted parity with Newcastle.

 

[Finger66]

Why I read that too man!!!!

 

[oldendays]

ATC at Luton is provided by NATS, not AENA.

 

[Len Fish]

Which would make sense that they want parity with Newcastle whose ATC is also provided “in house”.