Originally Posted by
LBAflyer22
This isn't entirely accurate. Summer recruitment does begin within the Christmas period/with big recruitment days in January. However as you've alluded to the start dates/training dates don't begin until March/April. IN the time of someone been offered a job, they may of found a better job that's better paid and therefore give backward on the job they've been offered. Sometimes they treacle the new starters into the system to have a number for April/easter then have a different number for May onwards. Think what we all have to remember is Manchester has probably lost a number of staff in security and the same for Swissport due to the previous 2 years.
MAG has known since last Sept what the expected figures were going to be, they quoted about 24 million pax for this year. It turns out there are about 22 million seats available after the slots were handed back. As usual they were so cocky that there would be a flood of applicants for the prestigious positions that involve getting up at midnight to be in work for 2 in the morning all on minimum wage.
Attracting staff on these terms is proving difficult indeed there are no advantages or perks forthcoming from MAG to make working life attractive, parking is either one side or the other of the airport, requiring a bus journey into the airport adding an extra 20 minutes at the beginning or end of a shift, whereas they have ample parking in the mid stay car park at Terminal 3 for staff but choose to let passengers park here even though there are a multitude of new car parks with thousands of spaces.for them.And forget a subsidized staff canteen for the thousands that work here every day. Its Greggs or Boots.
Under the current tenure of Charlie Cornish MAG has turned into a once profitable forward thinking airport with no debts into one that owes about 3 billion pounds
https://www.magairports.com/investor...OkM5rvGttkMqjI .
And the current pay offer for MAG Employees on the table is a 6.5 percent payrise after 3 years of no rise and a 10 per cent cut over the last 2 years, and a one off offer to buy MAG staff out of their yearly bonus which is usually about £700, the offer to buy you out £700.
The only way out of this is for the Airlines to start coughing up a decent amount for Handling Agents and Services, it is invariably going to mean higher costs for the travelling public but without it they will not get any staff.