Traffic at Lisbon and Porto airports is disrupted this Friday, August 26 with the cancellation of around 100 flights due to a ground handling staff strike scheduled until Sunday evening, according to the Portuguese airport manager. (ANA).
“
Passengers on flights from the airlines included in this
list
are requested to confirm the status of their flight with their company before going to the airport
,” it says on its website.
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The low-cost airline Easyjet was the most affected, after having decided on Thursday to cancel several flights departing from and arriving at the two main Portuguese airports due to this social movement within the company Portway, a subsidiary of the airport manager. .
In Lisbon, "
everything is calm
", because most passengers on canceled flights have been notified in advance, an ANA spokeswoman told AFP.
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Other European airports impacted
According to the unions, this strike by Portway employees was followed by 90% at Lisbon airport and 85% in Porto.
The movement affected to a lesser extent the airports of Funchal, on the island of Madeira, and Faro, in the tourist region of the Algarve (south).
The strikers are demanding "
an immediate increase in wages
" allowing employees to "
regain their purchasing power
", according to a press release from the national union of civil aviation workers (SINTAC), at the origin of the movement.
Portuguese airports are not the only ones to be affected by staff strikes.
Since last spring, several social movements have disrupted the traffic of the main air hubs in Europe, in particular those of Amsterdam, London-Heathrow and Frankfurt.
Labor shortages are causing delays and forcing airlines to cut flights as the tourism recovery is stronger than expected.