2023-07-15 11:26:38
Ground staff at Italian airports are demanding the signing of a new collective agreement, the previous one having expired six years ago. Pilots from Malta Air and Vueling have joined the movement.
A thousand flights departing from and arriving at Italian airports were canceled on Saturday due to a strike by ground staff demanding the renewal of their collective agreement. About 250,000 domestic and international travelers are affected by the walkout of handling and check-in agents scheduled between 10 a.m. and 6 p.m. at the call of an inter-union.
They are demanding the signing of a new collective agreement, which expired six years ago.
At Fiumicino-Leonardo Da Vinci airport in Rome, around 200 flights were canceled, notably to Copenhagen, Stockholm, Barcelona or Palma de Mallorca, as well as Palermo or Catania in Sicily.
Malta Air and Vueling particularly affected
The companies Malta Air, which operates routes on behalf of Ryanair, Ita Airways (formerly Alitalia), and Vueling, whose pilots have decided to join the movement, are particularly affected.
Nearly 150 flights were canceled at the two Milan airports, Linate and Malpensa, around thirty at Turin-Caselle, as many at Palermo.
Transport Minister Matteo Salvini called for the “common sense” of the strikers not to prolong their movement and “not to harm millions of other workers and tourists”.
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