UK Transport Minister Grant Shapps is exploring issuing temporary visas to workers from the EU to ease a staffing crisis at airports.
Plans are being discussed to issue baggage handlers and check-in staff with temporary visas similar to those issued to fruit pickers, musicians and religious figures, The Telegraph reported.
Airports across Europe have struggled in the past week to cope with a rebound in demand, with British airports in particular experiencing chaos as a school half-term holiday coincided with the platinum jubilee holiday weekend.
Heathrow Airport boss John Holland-Kaye last week said travellers should brace for up to 18 months of chaos because it may take the aviation sector that long to recover from the Covid-19 pandemic.
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