AirportPlanner1 would be the first to blame Brexit if unemployment was high as he is about blaming Brexit because unemployment is low. I don’t see low unemployment as being a bad thing at the airport if it means bad employers have to pay staff more and there are plenty of those here at Luton.
Luton was a Brexit town so if there was a vote tomorrow to reverse that position so bringing in fresh overseas workers to undercut existing staff wage rates again, there would be little support.
The main issue is not Brexit, as that is last years news but Covid where people were sacked or laid off and now don’t want to come back to 24/7 shift pattens. We are now on day 2 of a Jubilee 4 day weekend but it might as well be just a normal day as airport workers don’t get any time off or overtime if their existing shift patterns don’t line up.
Keeping cheap new foreign labour out means passengers using Luton will have to pay fares that reflect that staff are not being exploited by being offered zero hour contracts or wages that are impossible to live on. Actually the new pay rates are still impossible to live on so expect further rises in air fares. If that means less people can afford to travel then so be it.