strikes

A strike by air traffic controllers and a national demonstration are forcing the Belgian authorities to close airspace altogether. This measure begins at 6.45am on 13 February and is due to be lifted at 10.15pm on Thursday evening. All flights to and from Brussels Airport will be cancelled on Thursday. The...

The Single European Sky and the operational management of air transport, fleet renewal and (large) grains of sand in supply chains, but also, of course, taxation: the General Meeting of BAR France - the Board of Airlines Representatives association has been bringing together representatives of the major airlines for over 75 years now - provided an opportunity...

The skies will be disrupted by industrial action on Tuesday 17 December following a mobilisation called by the Syndicat national des contrôleurs du trafic aérien (SNCTA) in response to the blocking of discussions on the organisation of work in 2025 at several French airports. "The current organisation of work has proved its effectiveness, both in terms of...

Schools, hospitals, government departments, electricity and gas companies: many trade unions are mobilising on 5 December for a day of action against the cost-cutting measures in Michel Barnier's government's draft budget for 2025. Or the late Barnier government, as the possibility of a motion of censure is so great this December.

The past year has not been an easy one for business travellers. That's according to a study published by TravelPerk, which predicts that 78% of professionals will be on the move by 2024. The annual Travel Disruption Report - the second published by the business travel management platform - also estimates that 43%...

The next few weeks look set to be difficult for SNCF passengers. Following a meeting on 28 October with Transport Minister François Durovray and then SNCF management, the railway company's unions have issued two strike warnings. The first, a one-day strike, is scheduled for Wednesday 20 November 19...

Brussels Zaventem airport is facing a tough day on 1 October. Due to a national strike by a majority of staff at the external security service provider, Brussels airport is expecting to be virtually deserted on this day. In order to ensure the safety of passengers and staff, the airlines in charge of security...

After Ryanair in Bordeaux, easyJet has just announced that it will be closing its Toulouse base next spring. However, the reasons are different from those of its competitor. The British carrier is not really blaming charges at Blagnac airport. Easyjet is instead citing a general restructuring of its activities in France due to a marked slowdown...

Air Canada has three weeks left to reach an agreement with the Air Line Pilots Association. If they fail to do so, the Canadian airline's pilots could well carry out their threat through strike action starting on 17 September. The three-week cooling-off period leaves plenty of time for...

A strike by Paris airport staff on 17 July, but little disruption is expected. Although several ADP group unions - CGT, CFDT, FO and UNSA - have called for strike action just a few days before the opening of the Olympic Games, the strike is "not expected to result in any flight cancellations", according to...

Updated on Friday 31 May at 9am Despite the very advantageous wage agreement signed on 25 April by the air traffic controllers, wage movements are continuing at Orly airport. Following last weekend's strike, which resulted in 70% flights being cancelled, USAC-CGT, the Union syndicale de l'aviation civile-CGT, has filed a...

Passengers due to take Vueling flights in France in the next few weeks are likely to face problems due to a strike. The union representing the Spanish low-cost airline's French flight attendants has called a strike from 8 to 12 May. The reason for the strike is...

Updated on 25 April at 10am. Will the strike that was due to paralyse French skies on Thursday 25 April be as extensive as announced? The SNCTA (Syndicat National des Contrôleurs du Trafic Aérien - National Union of Air Traffic Controllers) had in fact called for a 24-hour strike, in protest at a new version of a protocol deemed "unacceptable"...

Passengers will be facing a major strike in French air transport on Thursday 25 April. The SNCTA (Syndicat National des Contrôleurs du Trafic Aérien - National Union of Air Traffic Controllers) is calling a 24-hour strike in protest at a new version of a protocol being negotiated with the French Air Transport Authority, which is deemed "unacceptable".

Five months of bitter negotiations and a string of strikes. All this has finally resulted in an agreement between Deutsche Bahn (DB) and the German locomotive drivers' union (GDL). "The conflict was tough, but we were able to agree on an intelligent compromise", said the head of personnel at the DB.

The threat has been confirmed. Some 50,000 passengers of Austrian Airlines will be affected by a strike from midnight on Thursday 28 March until midday on Friday 29. During these 36 hours, the company will cancel 400 flights, according to the vida union. The union is calling for staff to...

What was for years the pride of Germany, the social consensus, seems to have become a thing of the past. Germany is once again preparing for strikes, barely a week after the last ones in the transport sector. At Lufthansa, the cabin crew union has called a strike...

It is now Brussels Airlines' turn to experience a three-day strike by its cabin crew. The strike began on 28 February and will last until 1 March. However, the impact is relatively minor. According to a spokesman for the Belgian airline, only 20% of flights are affected. Passengers are being re-routed...

It's getting a bit tiresome for passengers travelling on Lufthansa and its subsidiaries in Germany. The Verdi union has called a warning strike by Lufthansa ground staff for just over a day on Tuesday 20 February. The strike is expected to bring air transport to an even greater standstill than in the past...

Another warning strike by the Verdi union in Germany. This time it will affect Lufthansa ground staff at five German airports - and not the least. The hubs affected include Frankfurt and Munich, as well as Berlin, Düsseldorf and Hamburg. For Verdi, the proposals put forward by Lufthansa's...