The confrontation continues between the airline Ryanair and its staff based in Belgium, again on strike on Saturday and Sunday, causing dozens of flight cancellations. About a third of the Ryanair flights that were scheduled for these two days are canceled at the Belgian airports of Charleroi (south) and Brussels-Zaventem, according to the operators of the two sites.
There are “49 departure cancellations out of 136 scheduled flights”, affecting “around 9,000 passengers”, said a spokeswoman for Charleroi airport, one of Ryanair’s main platforms in Europe. At Zaventem, the cancellations refer to “five rotations per day”, that is, ten daily flights, twenty throughout the weekend, which also represents around a third of the activity of the Irish company, according to the airport.
But Belgian airports also have planes stationed in other European countries, with non-Belgian staff, which minimizes the impact of this strike, according to Ryanair. Questioned by AFP, the low-cost company assured that “more than 90%” of its flights serving Charleroi and Zaventem would operate on Saturday and Sunday.
“Respect for Belgian labor law”
This new strike movement called by the Christian union CNE, the only one represented at Ryanair in Belgium, has affected pilots and flight attendants since the end of June. The union criticizes the company for not adjusting wages to the cost of living and workload.
Source: BFM TV
