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Old Jul 20, 2014 | 10:22 am
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Originally Posted by corporate-wage-slave
Given that I imagine that Swissport bid a fixed priced contract to BA the only option - short of losing money on the deal with a payrise - is for passengers to wait and for Swissport to pay any service level failure penalty.
I do wonder if authorising some paid overtime and paying for taxis home is cheaper than whatever service delivery failure penalty applies to the handling contract?

That should get folk to stay on a bit later.
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