Sunak’s tourist tax could cost 2,000 Heathrow jobs: Anger mounts over decision to axe VAT refunds for foreign travellers By Tom Witherow For The Daily Mail Published: 21:51 GMT, 11 December 2020 | Updated: 21:51 GMT, 11 December 2020 Heathrow could lose 2,000 retail jobs because of Rishi Sunak’s ‘tourist tax’. The airport made the … Read more
Heathrow passenger numbers were 88 per cent down during second lockdown with SIX MILLION less flyers using the airport than last November Last month Heathrow airport saw an 88% drop in passenger numbers from 2019 Six million fewer passengers travelled through the airport, said chief executive He warned the British economy was suffering as a result … Read more
Heathrow bosses are planning on charging drivers £5 to drop off passengers at departures. The new plan appears to be a desperate bid from the airport’s chiefs to claw back the money it has lost amid the coronavirus outbreak. In October, Heathrow lost its status as Europe’s busiest airport as it recorded a loss of … Read more
Heathrow staff are set to walk out tomorrow in the first of four strikes over ‘savage’ pay cuts as the aviation sector endures the worst crisis in its history. Members of the Unite union, including firefighters and security staff, planned the 24-hour strikes following a dispute over what union bosses described as the west London … Read more
Virgin Atlantic has become the latest major airline to launch a Covid-19 testing trial. British Airways, American Airlines, United and Delta have also launched testing trial programmes for the virus. From December 9, Virgin Atlantic customers flying to Barbados or onwards to Antigua and Grenada on selected flights will receive ‘a free, rapid, point-of-care, pre-departure … Read more
Heathrow Airport workers are to go on strike next month over a dispute about plans to ‘fire and rehire’ 4,000 employees on reduced pay packets. Members of Unite, the UK’s main aviation union, voted 85 per cent in favour of industrial action that will involve firefighters, engineers, campus security, baggage operations, operational and airside workers. The … Read more
The boss of Heathrow Airport has slammed a ‘lack of Government action’ to help Britain’s struggling aviation industry after figures showed a ‘catastrophic’ 82 per cent fall in passenger numbers last month. Just 1.25 million people travelled through the west London airport last month, compared with 7.06 million during October 2019. North American routes saw … Read more
Passengers travelling from Heathrow can pre-order booze to pick up and drink before take-off, it emerged today. It comes after jokesters claimed to buy a £9.99 ticket for a flight they ‘had no intention of getting on’ to get themselves into an airport bar for pints as England was plunged into Lockdown 2 on Thursday. … Read more
Passengers travelling from Heathrow can pre-order booze to pick up and drink before take-off, it emerged today. It comes after jokesters claimed to buy a £9.99 ticket for a flight they ‘had no intention of getting on’ to get themselves into an airport bar for pints as England was plunged into Lockdown 2 on Thursday. … Read more
Heathrow’s bid to keep duty-free shopping: Britain’s biggest airport launches legal challenge to bring back bargains on perfume, clothing and electronics Heathrow argue it will intensify crisis facing battered aviation and retail industry As of January 1, tax savings on goods will apply only to alcohol and tobacco Abolition of VAT rebate scheme expected to … Read more