Airplanes, flight strike July 17. Controllers, Ryanair, Volotea

“Conditions in line with the national contract, water and food for the crews, often unable to get off the plane even for 14 consecutive hours and cancellation of the wage cuts introduced to face a period of crisis that is no longer current”. These are the requests of the workers of Ryanair, Malta Air and the CrewLink company who will go on strike tomorrow from 14 to 18: not alone, since the stop is joined by the employees of Easyjet and Volotea as well as the controllers of ENAV, who direct the traffic in the skies . The stop was announced for 24 hours, then reduced to 4 at the request of the Guarantee Commission. This could be a cut of about 23% of flights, in addition to some trips from abroad to our country. And on the Ita website there is a list of flights canceled tomorrow, about 120, including Milan-London, Rome-London, Milan-Catania, Olbia-Rome and Olbia-Milan routes. But the company assures that half of the passengers will be able to fly on the same day. Passengers who purchased an Ita ticket to travel on July 17 – informs the carrier – “in the event of cancellation or modification of the flight schedule, they can change their booking without penalty or request a refund of the ticket (only in the case in which the flight has been canceled or delayed by more than 5 hours) until 24 July 2022 ». While Ryanair blames ENAV, potentially complicating possible refund requests. Finally, the flights canceled by Volotea are 24, to and from Italy.

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The Codacons recalls what the European regulation provides: in case of cancellation, carriers must guarantee the reimbursement of the ticket for the part of the trip not carried out and a refund if there is no minimum notice of 14 days and if a alternative flight, from 250, 400 or 600 euros depending on the route, or boarding on an alternative flight. Or, alternatively, a seat on a flight on a later day. Rights which, as the Codacons recalls, also apply in the event of a strike. August The puzzle, however, is not just the day of the strike: after the crisis for Covid, which has put the sector to the ground in every sense, the companies have found themselves short of staff. And the new one takes time to form. Thus, according to Cirium, a data analysis company in the aviation sector, in the month of August, 15,788 cancellations are expected in Europe, equal to 2% of flights. Among the companies that will cancel more flights are Turkish Airlines, with 4,408 canceled departures; followed by British Airways (3,600); Easyjet (2,015); Lufthansa (1,888); Wizz Air (1,256) and KLM (944). Al.Mo.