Gatwick baggage handlers striking
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Hundreds of baggage handlers at Gatwick airport have started a 24-hour strike as part of a dispute over workloads. The action, involving around 600 Servisair baggage staff, began at 0300 BST on Saturday.
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Station fire adds to misery for thousands of travellers as bosses admit engineering work 'muddle'
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Workers refuelling aircraft at London's Heathrow began a two-day pay strike on Friday, as a baggage handlers' strike loomed at the British capital's other main airport at Gatwick.
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Australian airline Virgin Blue said a baggage handler had not followed proper procedure by taking a potentially explosive device found in an plane&#39;s cargo hold into a Sydney Airport terminal earlier in the week.
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A shortage of experienced air traffic controllers has resulted in a "staffing emergency" that is jeopardizing safety in the sky and on runways in Atlanta, Chicago, New York and Southern California, according to the union representing the nation's 14,800 controllers.
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A fire erupted Tuesday in a baggage area where work was under way at Charles de Gaulle airport, forcing the evacuation of several hundred people but causing no injuries, airport officials said.
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Unions look set to back industrial action at BAA airports, but consider festive amnesty
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A STRIKE by workers who refuel aircraft at Heathrow failed to disrupt flights, airport chiefs said last night. About 40 members of the Transport and General Workers Union walked out at 4.30am yesterday, after
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THE threat of travel chaos for holidaymakers was lifted yesterday when British Airways staff called off a planned strike. Unions representing baggage handlers and check-in staff at airports
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Workers who refuel planes at Heathrow airport today began a 48-hour strike after rejecting a two-year pay offer. Around 40 members of the Transport and General Workers Union walked out in the early hours of this morning after turning down the deal.
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Australian customs officers will launch a 24-hour strike from midnight Thursday, disrupting traffic into the nation's major air and sea ports, union leaders said.
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Staff at Britain's largest airport owner, BAA, vote for a wave of strikes next month
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A strike by hundreds of baggage handlers and maintenance workers at Gatwick Airport failed to disrupt flights today. The workers mounted picket lines outside
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Several airlines have expressed frustration with the operator of London's Heathrow and Gatwick airports for delays in lifting security restrictions despite an easing of Britain's terror alert.
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Passengers are facing travel disruption as a result of separate walkouts by Gatwick and Heathrow staff. Workers who refuel aircraft at Heathrow airport have launched a 48-hour strike which began at 4.30am after rejecting a two-year pay offer.
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A strike by baggage handlers and maintenance workers at Gatwick airport failed to disrupt flights yesterday. The workers mounted picket lines outside Gatwick as they launched a 24-hour
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Tens of thousands of commuters, holidaymakers bound for Heathrow and last minute Christmas shoppers suffered travel chaos today as striking Tube train drivers crippled services on the Piccadilly line.