Airport staff want to quit over pay and conditions

More than two in five airport workers are considering leaving the industry, research suggests.

A survey of 1,700 workers by a jobs website found reasons for wanting to quit included pay and stress.

Only 5 per cent blamed the current long delays at UK airports. Two out of three claimed they haven’t had a pay rise in the past 12 months.

Lee Biggins, chief executive of Cv-library, said: “Based on both current and ex-airline and airport workers, if salary levels and benefits were enhanced, the crisis could be severely dampened.”