Up to 1,200 Heathrow jobs at risk
Heathrow Airport is poised to follow Gatwick and cut jobs as it struggles to cope with the collapse in travel.
Up to 1200 jobs could go as it begins a 45-day consultation with 4700 engineers, airside operations and security staff.
According to reports, the airport is looking for staff to take pay cuts of 15% to 20%.
If an agreement cannot be reached with unions, job losses are likely to follow.
Heathrow said in a statement that Covid has cost the airport £1 billion since the start of March.
"Covid-19 has decimated the aviation industry which has led to an unprecedented drop in passenger numbers at Heathrow," it said.
"Provisional traffic figures for August show passenger numbers remain 82% down on last year and we must urgently adapt to this new reality.
"Discussions with our Unions have taken place over four months and our final offer is informed by feedback we have received from them.
"But with air travel showing little sign of recovery, these discussions cannot go on indefinitely and we must act now to prevent our situation from worsening.
"We have now started a period of formal consultation with our Unions on our offer, which still guarantees a job at the airport for anyone who wishes to stay with our business."
Unite official Wayne King told the BBC that any action would ‘further undermine confidence in the industry’.
"Our members have worked tirelessly throughout the Covid-19 pandemic," he said. "To conduct industrial relations via the media in such a brutish manner is designed to create fear and panic in a group of key workers."
King added that ‘it should not be forgotten that Heathrow is an incredibly wealthy company’.
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