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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Gwyn Topham Transport correspondent

Heathrow ‘operating as normal’ as 10-day strike by security staff begins

Unite members on a picket line at Heathrow on Friday
Unite members on a picket line at Heathrow on Friday. Photograph: Jordan Pettitt/PA

Heathrow airport said it was “operating as normal” as the first of 10 days of strikes by security staff got under way at the start of the Easter holiday period.

Passengers have been warned of potential disruption as 1,400 members of the Unite union take industrial action over pay. However, Heathrow’s chief executive, John Holland-Kaye, said passengers who were due to travel on Friday would get away.

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