When I left Swissport LGW and MAN were the golden boys and everything was done to make them look as good as possible and get the best contracts they could, the other bases just had to hope for nationwide contracts or stupidly low quotes to get work, the commercial guys didn't seem to care to much about them. Also the TOM/FCA carve up after the carriers combined seems to have been worked out so that the stations were split up between swissport (who mainly handled FCA) and Servisair (who mainly handled TOM), BHX lost FCA which had major repercussions for the base and STN gained TOM.
STN used to be split into 2 companies so it is possible that there is no cross over between the operations, FR/everyone else. Believe this is still the same so could explain why the FR's seemed to be less inconvenienced. There seems to be a lot of discontent at Swissport at the moment with the company going back on the pay deal so it would be quite concieveable that the staff are showing the company how they feel, leaving on time and not covering overtime shifts.
Maybe somebody will take the bull by the horns and get things sorted, but with the current management I can't really see things getting better any time soon. More chance of Gordie winning big time in the Euro election results tomorrow night
