More than 200 flights were canceled in Italy on Sunday due to a nationwide four-hour warning strike at airports called by unions of air traffic controllers, pilots and cabin crew. Connections to Zurich have been affected.
Those to Frankfurt (Germany), Paris and London were also affected by cancellations. But it is domestic flights that have been most affected.
The call for a national strike, from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m., concerned air traffic controllers from the Italian group Enav, as well as pilots and cabin crew from EasyJet, Volotea and Ryanair, according to the unions Filt-Cgil, Fit-Cisl and Uiltrasporti . This social movement occurred at the height of the summer season in Italy and only a few days following a strike by taxi drivers, linked to competition from Uber.
The unions explained that the air traffic controllers suffered from ‘the manifest inability (of Enav) to communicate and manage the staff’, and threatened further movements if their demands were not met.
As for the pilots and flight attendants of low-cost airlines, they work in “unacceptable conditions”, denounced for his part Uiltrasporti. And to accuse the British company EasyJet of unjustified dismissals and that Spanish Volotea of not respecting the legislation on minimum wages.
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