It’s been a day since red dot for transportation airplane. At 6 pm it finished strike scheduled for Sunday, July 17, which involved various trade unions for the staff of ENAV, the body that oversees the skies, but also the employees of private security and security services at the airport sites as well as the workers of low cost companies , such as the pilots and flight attendants of Ryanair, Malta Air and CrewLink, Easy Jet and Volotea.
The mobilization lasted four hours, from 14 to 18a limited time frame compared to the initial 24 hours foreseen (ndr), caused problems throughout Italy with hundreds of flights canceled. The inconvenience did not concern only low cost airlines, but also Ita Airways which, due to the mobilization of FILT-CGIL, FIT-CISL, Uiltrasporti, UGL-TA and UNICA for ENAV personnel, canceled 122 flights.
In Fiumicino alone, between arrivals and departures, 100 flights were not operated, while other connections were brought forward or postponed with respect to the time slot involved in the agitation. THE inconvenience, although present, they remained contained as many airlines had communicated the changes to their passengers in advance. Among the travelers of the Roman airport, those arriving from abroad were particularly penalized who did not find the connection or foreign passengers surprised or unaware of the strikes. The word “canceled” on the Fiumicino board remained next to many flights until around 5:20 pm. Then, gradually, the airport returned to regular programming with some aftermath of delays due to the high summer influx.
According to initial estimates, at airports Milanese, Linate and Malpensa, about 80 flights were canceled as a preventive measure. 37 those not operated in Bari on the morning of Sunday 17 July alone, and about forty in Bologna. In all Italian airports, however, a return to flood is expected normality in the next few hours.
According to the Minister of Tourism Garavaglia, who tried the path of injunction, the strike would have affected about 600 flights, also taking into account the local strike that affected many Italian airports, the control center of Brindisi, that of the Milan area, of Padua, of Rome. And again the airports of Bologna, Lamezia Terme, Naples, Perugia, Pescara, Brindisi, Ciampino and Turin Caselle.
We remind passengers that there is a European regulation which regulates the cancellation and delay policy. According to european regulationsin case of cancellation of the flight passengers are entitled to a reimbursement within seven days of the full ticket price or upon boarding a alternative flight towards the final destination. There is also one financial compensationthat is, compensation, but with some exceptions.
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