Continente is at the beginning of summer, a season marked by an increase in the flow of travel
The beginning of summer in Europe – a season of increased travel in the continent – is being marked by strikes and outbreaks of covid. As a result, hundreds of flights are being cancelled. Airlines and airport operators still face a shortage of workers in the post-pandemic period, with strikes enacted.
The employees of the low-cost airline Ryanair started this Friday (June 24, 2022) a 3-day stoppage in Belgium, Spain and Portugal. Workers demand better wages and working conditions.
The strike caused 18 flights between Brussels and Spain to be canceled on Friday (24.jun) and on Saturday (25.jun), according to the Reuters. Ryanair workers in the country plan another strike for June 30th and July 1st and 2nd.
Spain has mandated that the company operate 73% to 82% of its flights during the shutdown. The Portuguese government has not decreed minimum services, but there have been few cancellations so far.
O National Union of Civil Aviation Flight Personnel said that Ryanair relocated employees from other countries for flights to and from Portugal.
Brussels Airlines, a subsidiary of Lufthansa, has been facing a 3-day strike since Thursday (23.jun). According to the company, the stoppage should cause 60% of the 533 flights scheduled for those days to be cancelled.
Lufthansa, meanwhile, has announced that it will cancel 2,200 flights scheduled from June to July after an outbreak of covid among employees exacerbated the labor shortage. The number adds to the 900 flights in July that the airline had already informed would not be carried out.
The company said the “cancellations especially affect flights in Germany and Europe, but not typical holiday destinations”.
FUTURE STRIKS
THE Union Union, from Spain, said that EasyJet’s cabin crew will go on strike for 9 days in July, in the periods of: 1 to 3, 15 to 17 and 29 to 31 of the next month. The union said it represents 80% of the airline’s 450 employees who are based in Spain and hopes to reach an agreement to avoid the strike.
Around 700 British Airways employees stationed at Heathrow Airport in the UK voted to shut down activities in July. They urge the company to reinstate a 10% tax pay cut during the pandemic. According to the website EuroNewsthe start date or strike time has not yet been defined.
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