Southend Airport starts recruitment drive
Southend Airport is starting to recruit staff in preparation for its plans to become a fully-functioning regional airport by 2012.
By extending its runway, London Southend Airport will be able to attract airlines operating commercial passenger services.
The airport is predicting passenger growth to 2 million passengers per year by 2020.
A new London Southend Airport Railway station is scheduled for completion early this year and the new Control Tower will be fully operational from February 2011.
Ground works on the new passenger terminal are now underway.
In this wave of recruitment, the airport is looking for people to fill around 60 new positions.
Managing director Alastair Welch said: “At last we are now beginning to see all the developments we have been planning starting to happen – the building of the new terminal, the new Control Tower, Railway Station and hotel – and so we now need to start recruiting. This wave of recruitment is just the beginning of the local job creation.â€
By Bev Fearis
Bev
Editor in chief Bev Fearis has been a travel journalist for 25 years. She started her career at Travel Weekly, where she became deputy news editor, before joining Business Traveller as deputy editor and launching the magazine’s website. She has also written travel features, news and expert comment for the Guardian, Observer, Times, Telegraph, Boundless and other consumer titles and was named one of the top 50 UK travel journalists by the Press Gazette.
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