Originally Posted by
SWBKCB
It would be more compelling if you could produce some numbers to counter the report e.g. are ground staff paid above the average wage in the local area? It may be short on numbers, but it has the ring of truth to me....
When I was first starting out in the industry (around 2010) I was offered around 20hpw under £8ph to be a PSA, doing early shifts, by an agency who were pretty clear that they had a high turnover of staff and if someone kicked up, they'd be out on their ear pretty quickly. Not great.
That said, you also have many decently paying jobs - flight crew, engineers and other operational staff. The closure of MON and the engineering arm was worth about 1,500-2,000 of those stable jobs but EZY and TUI, as well as WUK / FBO ops have a big presence, more so than other larger airports.