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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Joe Middleton and agency

Shapps ‘risks travel chaos by ruling out emergency visa for aviation workers’

Travellers wait in a long queue to pass through the security check at Heathrow.
The UK’s understaffed airports have struggled to cope with a rise in demand during half-term. Photograph: Carl Court/Getty Images

The transport secretary is rejecting calls for an emergency visa for aviation workers to tackle the chaos at airports that has marred the half-term holiday, industry bosses have reportedly claimed.

Sources in the sector speaking to the BBC accused Grant Shapps of ruling out filling shortages of ground and air staff by amending the government’s shortage occupation list.

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