STN Ramp Rat, you must be a manager because you’ve got all the excuses nailed on, more or less except the actual explanation.
Swissport have been a liability for years, across the whole country. And that’s because they hire staff on seasonal zero hour contracts, to work 12+ hour shifts starting and/or finishing in the middle of the night, on mixed roster patterns, whilst earning near enough minimum wage. At the end of the season, or when the handling company lose an airline contract, they are jobless again, if they haven’t left before then by their own accord.
Every weekend in the summer, in every airport in the UK, Swissport are short staffed. That’s as predictable as the rest of the excuses yourself, as well as most UK airline management teams, are reeling off this summer.