Strike at Ryanair in Belgium for the New Year
Ryanair cabin crew in Belgium will be on strike for this New Year employee weekend. 107 flights departing from Charleroi airport will be canceled as a result, impacting 19,000 passengers.
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Ryanair cabin crew in Belgium will be on strike for this New Year employee weekend. 107 flights departing from Charleroi airport will be canceled as a result, impacting 19,000 passengers.
(MKa with AFP) – In order to demand respect for labor law by the Irish airline, the approximately 450 hostesses and stewards of the low-cost carrier were called to stop work on December 30 and 31, January 1, as well as January 7 and 8, according to the announcements of the French-speaking Christian unions CNE and Flemish ACV Puls.
Previously announced on December 23, the social movement was to lead to numerous flight cancellations. In the end, only flights departing from Charleroi airport (BSCA) will be affected. These are mainly planes bound for Tenerife, Dublin, Malaga, Lisbon and Marrakech.
The is part of a long standoff between the Belgian unions and management. Several movements have already grounded planes this year.
“We want Ryanair to respect Belgian law and stop the aggressive and execrable policy vis-à-vis its staff,” summarized Mr. Lebbe last week, who also asks the Belgian State to take the company to court. .
The management of Charleroi winces
On the management side of Charleroi airport, the announcement is far from making people smile, as the rapporteur our colleagues from dhnet.be. “19,000 people found themselves taken hostage because of this strike, it’s up to them to ask for an opinion,” says Philippe Verdonck, CEO of the airport. “Do I understand this strike? We are launching a movement for uncertainty about the future of the Brussels base! Welcome to Belgium, and thank you to those who are instigating this movement…”
Currently, Ryanair is therefore trying to find solutions and is contacting one by one the passengers who will indeed see their flight and their plans canceled to celebrate the new year.
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