All countries are suffering from a shortage of staff - partly because of a lack of foresight; partly for having ditched as many staff as they could and partly because there are fewer people wanting these jobs having been let go in the manner that they were.
It is not just the UK - Europe is suffering the same way.
Also - given Gatwick's announcement yesterday on flight reductions we can expect other airports to do the same which will see hundreds of thousands of people having their holidays cancelled.
The airlines are a shower of poo!

Flew from Faro to LGW this morning, mahoosive queues, BUT, all at the Jet2 desks(6/7 flights) media were all over it like a rash, our check in, brilliant. Passport control, meh, lots of people(families) & EU gates empty(with staff) bout 5mins in, opened all gates to clear, worked. Arrived LGW North, no probs whatsoever.

I'm a blind man, i'm a blind man, now my room is cold,
When a blind man cries, Lord, he feels it from his soul.
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You"re not wrong about steep spider, about 10 years ago i was coming up one after getting off the plane and an old couple were about 20 steps in front, i was looking back thinking these are a bit steep. when the old man fell back and rolled and rolled until i stopped him, he cut his head open and his hand was bloody, i thought these escalators are dangerous!

Wow, i was happy just to get to the top, reminded me of that long way down escalator at bank back in the day!

I never done it king but saw a few brave souls on semi final days on the way to wembley-one bloke got badly hurt on one occasion i think, not one of ours, the beer cans at the bottom usually come as a shock i suspect! I take it you had a go back in the day!

Something on escalator guidelines

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