Airports facing a very difficult summer, union warns
Worker shortages mean airports and ports are facing a "very difficult summer", a border staff union has said.
"For the first time in living memory, Border Force is no longer attracting enough candidates to fill the vacancies that they've got," Ms Moreton told the BBC. However, she added: "This is a very expensive proposition that resourcing it properly in the first place would have avoided." "Brexit has not helped with the issues we're facing at the moment because we had a natural attraction of individuals from the European market who would apply for vacancies within UK airports," he told the BBC.
The airport is aiming to have 1,000 new security officers recruited and in their posts by the summer.Last week, Ken O'Toole, the deputy chief executive of Manchester Airports Group, said staff shortages meant long queues at security could continue for four to six weeks. However, the company said it had flown 94% of its planned schedule in the past seven days, with around 1,500 flights a day - four times higher than this time last year.
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