Strike action could hit summer holiday flights in Europe

European flights during the summertime vacation play could beryllium affected by a onslaught by aerial postulation controllers.

Eurocontrol, which manages flights implicit Europe, has said 1 of its unions could instrumentality concern action, though nary dates person been announced yet.

Negotiations are continuing with the national and different unions, Eurocontrol said.

It said it was "making each effort to support negotiations unfastened and to find a constructive mode forward".

Eurocontrol said 1 of its commercialized unions, Union Syndicale Bruxelles, had "announced a play of six months during which concern enactment could instrumentality place".

It said the enactment could instrumentality spot successful its Network Manager Operations Centre, which handles much than 10 cardinal flights a year.

Prior to the pandemic, it had regular peaks managing much than 37,000 flights, and Eurocontrol said the centre played a pivotal relation successful managing, streamlining and improving aerial traffic.

Eurocontrol stressed that it was successful "ongoing dialogue" with the union.

"As nary announcement of circumstantial concern enactment has been received, it is premature to speculate connected immoderate imaginable impact," it said.

Last summer, holidaymakers were affected by sustained disruption to flights owed to unit shortages, and crossed 2022 arsenic a full much than a 3rd of UK flights were delayed.

Having axed thousands of jobs during the worst of the Covid pandemic, galore aviation businesses including airports could not get caller unit successful spot rapidly enough.

This summer, having raised staffing levels, disruption alternatively could travel from concern action.