Holidaymakers face a new wave of strike action bringing more airport travel woes amid the peak summer period. Aircraft refuelling workers at Heathrow Airport have voted to walkout in a pay dispute with strikes planned to coincide with the main school holidays.
Staff employed by Aviation Fuel Services (AFS) will commence a 72-hour walkout from 5am on July 21 until 4.59am on July 24 - causing "considerable disruption and delays," union Unite has claimed. More than 70 leading airlines rely on the company for refuelling at the UK's biggest airport.
These include Virgin Atlantic, American Airlines, United, SAS, Air France, Emirates, Delta, JAL, KLM and Singapore Airlines. British Airways will escape the strike action because its planes are refuelled from a separate source.
