A series of planned strikes at Heathrow Airport in a dispute over pay is threatening to cause summer travel chaos.
More than 4,000 workers, including security guards, engineers, passenger service operatives and drivers, are set to walk out on 26 July and 27 July, 5 August and 6 August, and 23 August and 24 August, in a move that could potentially shut down the airport.
It comes after members of the Unite union backed strike action in eight separate strike ballots.
The planned strikes come amid anger over pay differences between workers doing the same job at the airport and the massive pay hike for Heathrow’s chief executive John Holland-Kaye.