2023-07-15 10:20:17
A thousand flights departing from and arriving at Italian airports were canceled on Saturday July 15 due to a strike by ground staff, who are demanding the renewal of their collective agreement, which expired six years ago.
About 250,000 domestic and international travelers are affected by the stoppage of handling and check-in agents scheduled between 10 a.m. and 6 p.m., at the call of an inter-union.
At Fiumicino-Leonardo Da Vinci airport in Rome, around 200 flights were canceled, notably to Copenhagen, Stockholm, Barcelona or Palma de Mallorca, as well as Palermo or Catania, in Sicily.
A movement joined by pilots
Particularly affected are Malta Air, which operates routes on behalf of Ryanair, Ita Airways (ex-Alitalia), and Vueling, whose pilots have decided to join the movement.
Nearly 150 flights were canceled at the two Milan airports, Linate and Malpensa, around thirty at Turin-Caselle, as many at Palermo.
Transport Minister Matteo Salvini called for ” common sense “ strikers, so as not to prolong their movement and “not to harm millions of other workers and tourists”.
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