The aviation crisis continues to affect our travels, vacations, and flights. It has become a lottery to travel by plane. Although the number of canceled flights is decreasing, the number of delayed or postponed flights is increasing. More than once we have seen endless queues at airports, mountains of lost luggage, nervous passengers, and overwhelmed staff. Our friends at airlinestravel.ro have created a calendar of aviation strikes at airports in Europe
Strikes in Portugal: 19-21 August 2022
Two ground staff unions in Portugal have announced a three-day strike at ten Portuguese international airports from 19 to 21 August, demanding additional staff and wage increases. Pilots from TAP Air Portugal have demonstrated to protest against the drop in their income. The announced strike will affect air traffic at the main airports in Portugal : Lisbon, Porto, Faro, Funchal, Ponta Delgada, Horta, Santa Maria, Flores and Beja. The weekend targeted by the strike (from Friday 19 August at 00:00 to Sunday 21 August at 23:59) is expected to be one of the busiest of the year at Portuguese airports and will affect hundreds of flights, disrupting the travel plans of tens of thousands of passengers.
ANA Aeroportos de Portugal, for its part, recalled that ground wages were revised in April. Meanwhile, around 500 pilots of national carrier TAP Air Portugal demonstrated at Lisbon airport, according to the union SPAC, demanding the restoration of low wages during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Strikes in Spain – 8 August 2022 – 9 January 2023
The USO and Sitcpla unions have made a new strike call for Ryanair crews, from 8 August 2022 to 9 January 2023, from Monday to Thursday every week, at the 10 Spanish bases: Barcelona, Madrid, Palma de Mallorca, Girona , Valencia, Ibiza, Malaga, Santiago de Compostela, Seville and Alicante.
And easyJet employees have announced strikes on 12, 13, 14, 19, 20, 21, 27, 28 and 29 August 2022. Lufthansa pilots and British Airways pilots are in the process of voting on a strike call for the month of August.
