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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
World
Daniel Keane

Christmas travel misery now looms in skies as well as on railways and roads

The Christmas travel plans of millions in London and across the UK have been thrown into fresh disarray as airport workers joined railway staff in announcing strikes over the festive season.

The Public and Commercial Services union (PCS) dealt the UK’s latest festive travel hammerblow, announcing on Wednesday that Border Force staff working at some of the UK’s largest airports would walk out for eight days from December 23 to New Year’s Eve.

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