Air France went through severe disruptions (2/5 of long haul flights and half of the rest getting canceled) after the pilots began their four-day strike in protest to the change of the legal age for retirement. The change in retirement age from 60 to 65 was passed in the French parliament earlier.
European passengers are [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Cancelations’
Air France pilots strike!
Posted in Airlines, Passengers, Pilots, Travel Woes, tagged 4-day Strike, Air France, Cancelations, Jean-Cyril Spinetta, Retirement Age, Strile on November 14, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Greek state transport strike brings Greece to a halt
Posted in Airlines, Passengers, Travel Woes, tagged Athens, Cancelations, Costas Karamanlis, General Confederation of Greek Workers, Greece, GSEE, Halt, Γ.Σ.Ε.Ε, Olympic Airlines, OTE, PPC, Standstill, Strike, Traffic clogged on October 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
As blogged earlier, Greece’s largest union, GSEE (General Confederation of Greek Workers and in Greek – Γ.Σ.Ε.Ε) called for a 24 hour strike on October 4th 2008 (today) after the Prime Minister Costas Karamanlis unveiled plans to privatize Olympic Airlines.
From CNN -
Public transport — including the Athens metro, state railway services
and city buses — also [...]
Update: Olympic on Sale, Employees Strike!
Posted in Airlines, Passengers, Travel Woes, tagged 24-hour strike, Athens, Athens Metro, Cancelations, General Confederation of Workers of Greece, Greece, Greek Post Office, Greek Railway Organization, GSEE, Olympics Airline, OSE, Strike on October 6, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Earlier I blogged about Greece’s flag carrier going private. The conservative Greek government is trying to privatize a number of public utilities services like Greek Railway
Organization (OSE), Olympic Airlines and the Greek Post Office. As a result, in protest the General Confederation of Workers of Greece (GSEE) has announced a 24 hour nationwide strike on [...]
Update: Alitalia Cancels Flights
Posted in Airlines, Passengers, Travel Woes, tagged Alitalia, Alitalia Airlines, CAI, Cancelations, Fiumicino Airport, Rome, Withdrew on September 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Alitalia confirmed today that -
20-30 flights were canceled from Rome’s Fiumicino Airport (though it was attributed to “technical reasons”)
And no, it has not run out of jet fuel (despite earlier stories for the same)
Earlier CAI, the consortium of Italian investors, withdrew their offer to rescue the airline due to opposition for the labor/trade unions.
In my [...]
Lufthansa: Worker strike causes 44 flight cancellations
Posted in Airlines, Airports, Passengers, Travel Woes, tagged Cancelations, Cologne, Delays, Deutsche Luftansa AG, Europe, Frankfurt, Lufthansa, Munich, Pay Raise, Strike, Stuttgart on July 1, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Luthansa (or Deutsche Luftansa AG), flag carrier of Germany and second largest airline in Europe, canceled 44 flights and delayed many more after its workers in Frankgurt, Munich, Stuttgart and Cologne walked off the job to press for higher pay raise. Lufthansa has earlier offered 5.5% raise in two steps instead of the union’s request [...]
Pilots go on Strike at Japan Airlines
Posted in Airlines, Passengers, Pilots, Travel Woes, tagged Cancelations, Japan, Japan Airlines, Pilots. Strike on June 18, 2008 | 1 Comment »
After failed talks between pilots and management at Japan Airlines over bonus payments and labor conditions, the pilots went on strike causing 34 domestic flights to cancel.
From International Herald Tribune -
“The cancellations at Japan Airlines Corp, the country’s largest
carrier, were the first to be caused by a strike at the airline and
affected some 5,000 passengers, [...]
AA’s MD 80 Update – More than 1000 Flights Cancelled
Posted in Airlines, Passengers, Travel Woes, tagged American, Cancelations, MD80 on April 9, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
(Picture form here, showing the real problem)
Today (Wednesday, April 9th 2008), more than 1000 flights were canceled by American Airlines for continued MD-80 Inspections. The 1000+ cancellations were because as of today morning only some 30 of the 336 MD-80s were back in service. Even if on an average there were 100 passengers on these [...]
