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Old June 28th 18, 04:20 PM posted to uk.transport.london
Graeme Wall Graeme Wall is offline
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Default How many employees per gate do London's airports have?

On 28/06/2018 15:18, Roland Perry wrote:
In message , at 14:40:07 on Thu, 28 Jun
2018, Graeme Wall remarked:

Â*With 231 gates, that's over 300 employees per gate or over 150
employees per gate per shift assuming an average of 2 shifts.


More likely three shifts.


Working time directive (yes, I know, people voted to rid ourselves of
such Brussels imposed Curly Banana Republic red tape) converges on
approximately a 37hr week for 52 minus 6 weeks of the year.

That's 37*46=1700hrs a year, from which one has to subtract an allowance
for sick days and training. Let's say 1500/yr

If Heathrow operates 20hrs a day (allowing for after-midnight finish and
4am start), 365 days a year that's 7300.

Which if every job function was on duty the whole time gives 4.8 sets of
employees. Let's call it 4x for the purposes of the debate.


A lot of jobs will function 24 hours a day even though aircraft won't be
flying all the time so your 4.8, rounded to 5 is probably closer to reality.

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