It is my understanding that between 20-30 members of staff called in sick on thursday which I believe represented something like 25-35% of the workforce.
Now either there is a bug going round, Swissport are working staff to the bone, or it constituted some form of unofficial protest action, who knows (I suspect all play their part).
Eitherway it shows the scale of the problem facing BHX.
When is the new baggage system going to be up and running????