Airline strikes and flight cancellations are disrupting many summer holiday plans. Picture: BLOOMBERG
Though travel demand has rebounded dramatically in Europe, what had been touted as the aviation industry’s long-awaited post-pandemic revival is being constrained by labour strife and limits in airport logistics. Chaotic scenes are playing out at airports in Amsterdam, London, Frankfurt and Paris, with lines of people waiting for hours only to be told their flights have been cancelled.
Ryanair’s cabin crew in Spain, Portugal and Belgium began a three-day strike on Friday and were to be joined by colleagues in France from Saturday and Italy on Sunday. The discount airline says fewer than 2% of its flights on Friday were disrupted by the strikes, though about 40% of services in Belgium were affected. Its Spanish workers were set for a further three days of labour action next Friday, while rival easyJet is bracing for nine days of staggered walkouts in the country from July 1.
The Transport Salaried Staffs Association has warned that Britain faces “a long-running summer of discontent” across the rail network if its demands aren’t met. Waiting in a long line for a Dubai-bound flight, Ritu, an Amsterdam-based fashion industry brand strategist who declined to provide her last name, said she would have missed her flight had she not arrived four hours before departure.
Travellers are bearing the brunt of the chaos. For many, dream holidays are starting off badly or long-planned professional trips are having to be rerouted.
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