Owners of fly to let properties and their customers will be relieved to hear the BAA strike at several UK airports now looks to have been averted.

Thousands of workers at six airports had threatened to walk out in a row over pay.

However a deal has now been struck that will see them gain a two percent rise and a lump sum of £500, according to the Unite union.

Unite said the offer by airport operator BAA was double the original deal proposed. The first offer was rejected last week, raising the threat of travel chaos for hundreds of thousands of holidaymakers.

Firefighters, security staff and other workers at Heathrow, Stansted, Southampton, Glasgow, Edinburgh and Aberdeen airports will now be urged to accept the new deal in a ballot over the next three weeks.

Unite said the new offer, tabled by BAA during lengthy talks at the conciliation service Acas recently, would now set the standard for pay deals in the industry.

The offer includes a two percent increase on basic pay and allowances backdated from January 2010, arrangements for payment of shift pay during periods of sickness to remain unchanged and a lump sum of £500, with £200 paid next month and the remainder next March. Unite said the lump sum could reach £900 if performance targets are met.

National officers Brian Boyd and Brendan Gold said: “This offer is double what BAA had originally offered with no strings attached.

“Plus it comes with a guaranteed lump sum of £500. The negotiations were tough but Unite has delivered a fair offer for BAA staff.

“The game is up for employers in the aviation industry. With the recession receding in the industry, Unite now expects BAA's pay offer to set the standard.”

However a national newspaper has reported pay row union Unite has freezed its own staff’s wages.

The Sun claims Unite’s own employees, who number 1,000, will get a zero pay rise this year. Unite chiefs Tony Woodley and Derek Simpson are on a package of £135,330 and £196,497 respectively.

A furious union source told the newspaper: “It is hypocrisy of the highest order for Unite to go chasing after a pay deal for BAA workers while imposing a freeze on their own. It is effectively a pay cut. Woodley can afford not to take an increase. What about staff struggling to make ends meet.”

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