It seems the French Air Traffic controllers are to go on strike today with impact to be felt quite quickly as flights to and from France will be hit. Flights over flying France will be affected. Some highlights: Air France is pulling between 30% of flights from Paris and 20% from other French Cities. The Short and Medium Haul programmes are expected to be impacted British … [Read more...]
Finnair staff prepare to walk out on strike – services affected.
In unwelcome news, the Finnish Cabin Crew Union and Finnish Aviation Union have published a strike waring against Finnair, with possibilities of strikes from 15th November to 23rd November. Additional notice of strikes have given between 27th November to 30th November. Whilst negotiations are ongoing, Finnair are allowing passengers to rebook tickets to 31st May 2014 … [Read more...]
French ATC Strike – 10th October
Well, this has been bubbling along, and the French are going to have a strike tomorrow, with the strike expected to 0430-1800 UTC (06:30CET to 20:00CET) according to EuroControl. The strike is being called over the European Single Sky plans. The strike will impact most on the South of France/Spain/Portugal border, but will hit most of France with some action expected … [Read more...]
Lufthansa strike action
Another day, another set of strikes. This time the strikes are by the ver.di union as they take action against Lufthansa over pay in Germany. The strike runs form 05:00 to 12:00CET, with short haul flights operating from Frankfurt, Munich, Düsseldorf, Berlin, Hamburg and Cologne all hit, leading to 514 cancellations. The full list is at … [Read more...]
Kingfisher hopes to resume flying next week
In what should be no surprise to ... well - anyone, Kingfisher Airlines failed to take to the air today. The airline is hoping to resume flights next week. A mixture of staff confrontations, strike action and management locking out the airline hasn't helped things - with Kingfisher grounded since Sunday. The airline is in the process of trying to reach a settlement … [Read more...]
More strikes at Stansted ahead…
It seems the summer of discontent is continuing, this time with the GMB Union disagreeing with Swissport over the breakdown of rosters between union members and Swissport. Seven days of strikes are on the cards with the following dates: 0530 on May 23 until 0530 on May 24 0530 on May 26 until 0530 on May 28 0530 on June 2 until 0530 on June 6 Swissport handle for … [Read more...]
Oh great. Big UK Border Fun as one of the unions goes on strike….
Arriving on the 10th May? Well you're probably going to have more of a wait to get into the country as the Immigration Services Union (who represent 4500 members) are going out on strike over pensions and retirement ages. The 24 hour strike is set to start at 00:01 on 10 May for 24 hours. BAA who operate London Heathrow, Stansted and other some other UK airports … [Read more...]
Frankfurt Airport strike over… for now
It seems that both sides want to try again in the Frankfurt Airport dispute and the strike action has ended (for now) at 22:00CET This brings to an end of 5 days of strikes, with FraPort and the GdF Union agreeing to fresh talks The GdF Union, which wants higher pay and shorter working hours, said it would end the strike at 2200 CET, and hopes to begin new talks on … [Read more...]
Another day, another day of strikes at Frankfurt
Oh yes, it shouldn't come as a surprise, but Frankfurt ground staff are still on strike. The news gets worse as it's due to continue until at least Friday according to Lufthansa. Here's the hit list http://www.lufthansa.com/online/portal/lh/de/info_and_services/irregularities/canceled_flights?nodeid=3526064&l=en&cid=18002 Bottom line: Short Haul Domestic programme … [Read more...]
UK Border Agency/Public Sector Strike 30/11 – It’s on
Well with the Unions and Government itching for a smack-down fight, lets do a quick round of up of the facts thoughts, and damn lies Truths: Most public sector agencies will be down heavily tomorrow (30/11) due to a strike against the changes to the public sector provisions. This includes parts of Local Government, Schools, parts of the NHS, and the UK Border … [Read more...]
