A thousand flights to and from Italian airports were canceled on Saturday due to a strike by ground staff demanding the renewal of their collective agreement. Some 250,000 national and international travelers are affected by the strike of handling and check-in agents scheduled between 10:00 and 18:00 at the request of an inter-union.
They demand the signing of a new collective agreement, which expired six years ago.
At Rome’s Fiumicino-Leonardo Da Vinci airport, around 200 flights were cancelled, in particular to Copenhagen, Stockholm, Barcelona or Palma de Mallorca, as well as to Palermo or Catania in Sicily.
Malta Air and Vueling especially affected
The companies Malta Air, which operates routes on behalf of Ryanair, Ita Airways (ex-Alitalia), and Vueling, whose pilots have decided to join the movement, are especially affected.
About 150 flights were canceled at the two Milan airports, Linate and Malpensa, about thirty at Turin-Caselle, and as many at Palermo.
The Minister of Transport, Matteo Salvini, called on the “common sense” of the strikers not to prolong their movement and “not to harm millions of other workers and tourists.”
Source: BFM TV
