Their action has led to delays on departure, as well as some planes taking off without their passengers’ luggage.
For Tamara, her husband and their children aged 3 and 8, it has been a long wait, report our colleagues from HBvL. After boarding their flight to Gran Canaria, the family thought they were leaving without their luggage. “For three hours, we sat on the plane without any information,” says the mother.
“It was only around 11:30 p.m. that we actually took off, whereas the flight was scheduled for a quarter to eight,” she continues. Fortunately their luggage had indeed embarked with them.
A meeting was held on Saturday morning between management and worker representatives, but this did not lead to a way out of the crisis. Discussions had resumed in the followingnoon.
On Saturday evening, a number of teams were finally at work. At the end of the negotiations, the unions and the delegates undertook to make the staff work tomorrow / Sunday, indicated Bjorn Vanden Eynde, of ACV-Transcom, on behalf of the union common front.
Baggage handling resumed as normal at Brussels Airport on Sunday, but the airport finds itself under pressure, with many travelers having taken the initiative to show up to pick up suitcases that had not landed with them on Saturday. “We ask travelers not to come to the airport if they have not been contacted,” said Brussels Airport spokesperson Nathalie Pierard on Sunday.
About 5,000 pieces of luggage ended up at the airport on Saturday without an owner.
