strikes

The Spanish low-cost airline Volotea could face significant disruption in France this weekend. The SNPL, UNAC and SPL trade unions have called on pilots and cabin crew to go on strike from Friday 4 to Sunday 6 September. The impact is expected to be significant, as 60% of Volotea’s operations take place in France. Volotea is based in…

According to information gathered by AFP from the SNPNC-FO union, around forty easyJet flights will be cancelled on 15 August departing from French airports. It will happen all over again the next day, with an impact of a similar scale. Flight attendants represented by the inter-union coalition SNPNC-FO, UNPNC-CFDT and UNAC-CFE-CGC are condemning a deterioration in their working conditions,...

Turbulence expected for easyJet in France. The SNPNC-FO, UNAC-CFE-CGC and UNPNC-CFDT unions have jointly announced the lodging of a strike notice covering all the airline's French bases, from the morning of Friday 7 August to the evening of Wednesday 2 September. While no date has been officially set, business travellers should only be moderately...

The CGT trade union section at Groundforce Barcelona is calling for a strike starting tonight, at 00:00, at Barcelona Airport. The action will affect ground handling staff, passenger check-in and boarding, as well as flight coordination. It is intended to protest the deterioration of occupational health conditions. Air France is among the…

Updated 9 June at 6:00 PM It was already announced as being quite well-followed at the beginning of May, when four SNCF unions filed notice of a strike against the ongoing reorganisation within the group and the spin-off processes which, according to them, are causing dramas among employees. It is indeed expected to be.

Business travellers who plan to travel by train on Wednesday, June 10th should expect significant disruptions on the railways. The four main railway unions have indeed filed a notice of national strike, feeling that their concerns are not being heard by the railway company's management after several weeks of discussion. Sud-Rail,...

Travellers passing through Belgium should expect a difficult day on Tuesday 12 May. Almost three months to the day after the 12 March strike which led to the cancellation of all flights departing from Brussels Airport, a new strike will affect the operations of airlines and transport companies alike…

Announced on Saturday afternoon, 11 April, is a new 48-hour strike which is severely disrupting air traffic for the carrier Lufthansa. This follows the strike on 10 April which had been called by cabin crew unions. This time, it comes from the company's pilots, who feel dissatisfied with the absence of…

Each month brings its share of strikes at Lufthansa. After a strike on Thursday 12 and Friday 13 March, cabin crew will in turn go on strike on April 10. The information was communicated at the last minute, on April 8 in the afternoon, by the UFO union. The action is expected to cause significant disruption,…

A strike rarely comes alone in Germany, with the VERDI transport union also announcing several public transport strikes until Friday. Meanwhile, Berlin airport is completely blocked this Wednesday. Four states are affected by the walkouts: Bavaria, Hamburg, Saxony, and North Rhine-Westphalia. In Bavaria, nine cities are...

The social climate in Germany is decidedly tense. A few days after the strike which forced Lufthansa to cancel half of its flights, it is Berlin airport that will bear the brunt. Following the call for a strike launched by the ver.di union, the management of Brandenburg Airport was forced to cancel all of…

Updated 12 March at 10:00 AM Lufthansa's management had barely had time to savour the announcement of record results for 2025 before Vereinigung Cockpit abruptly brought the company back down to earth. Literally. Following the movements launched this week in Belgium and Italy, the German union has also issued a call…

A nationwide demonstration will affect travel in Belgium next week. Brussels Airport has already planned to cancel its operations on Thursday. "In order to continue to ensure the safety of passengers and staff, we have decided, in consultation with the airlines, not to operate any departing passenger flights on 12 March"...

For a while, the Italian government put the trade union discontent on hold to spare the Winter Olympics. The day after the closing ceremony, however, there is no longer any time for national unity. As soon as the "Olympic truce" is over, a vast strike movement is in the starting blocks. On...

Turbulence ahead at Lufthansa: the German airline will have to deal with a major last-minute strike this Thursday 12 July. The pilots' union Vereinigung Cockpit (VC) launched its call on Tuesday. And according to its leaders, "This industrial action will disrupt all flights departing from German airports between 00:01 and...

The railways are kicking off a major strike in Belgium. "Due to a trade union strike against certain measures included in the government agreement, fewer trains will be running from Sunday 23 November (10pm) to Wednesday 26 November inclusive (last train)", warns the national company SNCB. To compensate for these difficulties, the...

France has narrowly escaped further chaos at its airports. On Sunday evening, following last-minute negotiations, the main air traffic controllers' union announced that it was abandoning the strike planned for 7 to 9 October. This decision means that hundreds of flights will not have to be cancelled across the country...

France does not have a monopoly on strikes in this busy autumn. While French air traffic controllers have targeted 7, 8 and 9 October for their notice period, Brussels airport will be affected on 14 October. The reason: a national union action in which the staff of...

On the sidelines of the strike on 2 October - which will not affect the airline industry as a whole, except at Beauvais - another strike is in the offing. On 29 September, the Syndicat National des Contrôleurs du Trafic Aérien (National Union of Air Traffic Controllers) issued a notice of strike action. The SNCTA is calling for strike action on 7, 8 and 9 October, and specifies "For...

A new day of action is in prospect with the strike on 2 October. On the whole, French skies should escape the turbulence. The French Civil Aviation Authority (DGAC) has announced that it will apply the minimum service provisions to air navigation services at Paris Beauvais airport alone. A reduction in the flight schedule...