Now (not) boarding at Heathrow Airport?

(AP Photo/Sang Tan)

By David Stewart White
Examiner.com
12 August, 2010

London Heathrow faces travel chaos if more than 6,000 airport workers go on strike later this month. Strike dates have not been set, but could include the busy end of August Bank Holiday weekend, Other airports in the United Kingdom that may be affected include London Stansted, Glasgow, Edinburgh, Aberdeen and Southampton.

Heathrow Terminal 5 (photo: David S. White)

The airport workers are part of Unite—the same union that has called repeated cabin crew strikes at British Airways.

The union threatens further strikes at the airline in September but BA has pledged to operate all flights.

An average of over 180,000 passengers use Heathrow Airport each day and the airport, including most transatlantic flights to and from London.

• BAA airports website
• Unite union website