The four-hour strike on Wednesday 8 June of Ryanair they could just be the first of a difficult summer for travelers. Employees of airlines, especially low cost airlines, stop already this Wednesday pilots and other personnel, and flight controllers from part of Italy. The passengers involved could be 357,000, despite the fact that the airlines are rescheduling some of the more than 2,000 flights during the strike times.
These are the reports from Enac, the National Civil Aviation Authority, and the Strike Guarantee Commission:
from 8 to 20 ENAV staff in the Milan area control center
from 1pm to 5pm the employees of Alitalia, Ita Airways and easyJet
from 10 to 14 Ryanair, Malta Air, Crewlink and Volotea.
Ryanair will try to reduce the inconvenience by bringing personnel from other European bases to Italy. The unions communiqué against low cost was particularly harsh. Filt Cgil and Uiltrasporti they speak of “the impossibility of opening a discussion on the problems that have afflicted the crew for months”. The issues under discussion, rejected by Ryanair, are: “the failure to comply with the minimum wages provided for by the national contract, the persistence of an agreement on the cut of wages that is no longer current, the arbitrary curtailments of the paycheck, the non-payment of sick days , the company’s refusal to grant days of compulsory leave during the summer season e lack of water and meals for the crew“.
Volotea he plans to cancel a dozen flights. Ita Airways should cancel 81. 10 domestic flights are insured, for Sardinia and Sicily and 18 international.
Strikes are just one of the faces of a summer that promises to be difficult for those who have to travel, especially by plane. We have already seen the difficulties in some of the largest airports in the world: from Brussels to London, from Amsterdam to Dublin. The months of Covid-19, in which travel was limited, led to cuts in airport staff, from baggage handling to security staff. As in many other sectors many workers have not returned. The result is that you remain in the queue between checks and check-in and you miss your flight or leave late. In Italy many remained thanks to the layoffs.
The world is back to flying full time, airport workers are not. The flights in this June, second Eurocontrol, they are almost back to being as many as in 2019, before the pandemic, they are at least 90% this month. Not only the workers on the ground have shrunk, but also pilots and flight crews. Delta and Southwest crews protested in the US.
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Source: Vanity Fair
