Hundreds of travellers do not depart or land on time as Greek air traffic controllers have entered a socalled “white strike”. Flights to and from Greek airports can be delayed from 15 minutes to 2 hours, as air controllers follow a work-to-rule policy. They follow a strict compliance with international regulations on airspace capacity by allowing only a certain number of flights per hour.
By early afternoon Sunday, 42 flights from the international airport “Eleftherios Venizelos” airport in Athens were delayed. The majority of delayed flights are related to domestic destinations, Greek media report.
Delays from 40 to 90 minutesoccure also at domestic and international flights landing/departing the international airport “Macedonia” in Thessaloniki. Delays and cancellations are expected to bu continued next week too.
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A court in Athens has ruled Friday that the rolling 24-hour strike planned for July 25th, was ‘illegal”. Greek air traffic controllers complied with the court decision, but they entered a ‘white strike’ instead. According to a statement in controllers’ website, they will have a board meeting tomorrow to decide about the future of their protest actions. They demand new staff and payment of overtime work.
White… blue… or whatever-you-call-it air traffic controllers’ strike occur in the mid of highest tourism season in a country facing a severe economic crisis.
Greeks’ strike affect Cyprus too
Famagusta-gazette report in its online edition that thirty five flights from and to Cyprus – 24 departures and 11 arrivals to and from European destinations- were affected until early afternoon on Sunday from the partial strike of the air traffic controllers in Greece, Adamos Aspris Public Relations and Communications Manager of Hermes Airports Ltd has stated.
Aspris said that 33 of these flights concern flights to and from Larnaka International Airport and two of them concern Paphos International Airport.“Unfortunately, due to the differentiation of the operation system of the air traffic controllers in Greece, the flight schedule to and from the two International Airports of Cyprus has been affected,“ he added
