Britons warned of long Easter airport queues due to staff shortages


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  • Saturday, 02 Apr 2022

FILE PHOTO: A passenger aircraft descends to land at Heathrow Airport, as British Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced a relaxing of COVID-19 travel testing rules for entering and leaving England amidst the continuation of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic in London, Britain, January 5, 2022. REUTERS/Toby Melville

LONDON (Reuters) - Airline passengers were warned on Saturday to expect long waits at British airports over the Easter holiday period due to a chronic shortage of check-in staff and security personnel.

“We do think that there will be queues at peak times over the Easter period," Karen Dee, chief executive of the Airport Operators Association, told the BBC.

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