Incompetent management I assume.
Interesting ownership of Manchester Airport….Manchester Airport Group
MAG is privately managed on behalf of its shareholders. The breakdown is as follows
- 35.5% - IFM Global Infrastructure Fund - 35.5%
- 35.5% - Manchester City Council
- 29%- The other 9 Greater Manchester Councils, which are:
- The Borough Council of Bolton
- The Borough Council of Bury
- The Oldham Borough Council
- The Rochdale Borough Council
- The Council of the City of Salford
- The Metropolitan Borough Council of Stockport
- The Tameside Metropolitan Borough Council
- The Trafford Borough Council
- The Wigan Borough Council
When I was there the airport workers security, airport hands all were employees directly of the airport.
It's gone to Swiss port and others now , did years a go and the pay and conditions have gone downhill since as the airport performance has as well.
It was hard work , but I enjoyed it and was very well paid, the competition to get on was very stiff, think there were only 60 of us out of 2000 passed the test, maths , basic engineering, and strength tests , they had to lower it to get people in by the start of the summer season.
Then a four week training school, how to load /unload planes correctly , security and a lot more.
I will bet they do very little of that now .
I loved the job, some soft b in town smashed into the back of my car , I got concussion and it cost me the job full time.
Got called back the year after and was going to help with the training.
The fella running the training had got wind of it going private and phoned me to take the take job i had been offerd on the rail ,as it was more steady .
It went private and I don't think there was everyone i knew still working there a year late, shame as they were all good at the job.
I have seen a local MP in the paper today saying he wants to go back to a well paid model to attract and retain the right staff, he is living in dreamland , these days.