{"id":5415,"date":"2025-04-09T08:43:08","date_gmt":"2025-04-09T08:43:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/5415\/"},"modified":"2025-04-09T08:43:08","modified_gmt":"2025-04-09T08:43:08","slug":"italy-and-greece-travel-warning-aviation-worker-strikes-set-to-impact-flights-tomorrow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/5415\/","title":{"rendered":"Italy and Greece travel warning: Aviation worker strikes set to impact flights tomorrow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-ad__placeholder__logo\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/logo-euronews-grey-6-180x22.svg.svg+xml\" width=\"180\" height=\"22\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\"\/>ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p>Air travel faces disruption in Europe this week as employees in the aviation sector threaten to walk out. <\/p>\n<p>Strikes are planned for tomorrow, 9 April, in Italy and Greece, which may impact families taking a trip during the UK\u2019s school break. Those planning trips in the run-up to the Easter holiday could be impacted, too. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/icon-cross-10x10-grey-6.svg.svg+xml\" width=\"10\" height=\"10\" alt=\"Close advertising\" fetchpriority=\"high\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Travellers are advised to check their flight status regularly and prepare for potential delays and cancellations.<\/p>\n<p>Italy: EasyJet flight attendants strike<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/travel\/2025\/01\/18\/worried-about-flying-these-airlines-have-been-ranked-the-safest-in-europe-for-2025\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>EasyJet<\/strong><\/a> flight attendants affiliated with Italian trade unions (FILT, CGIL, and UIL) are scheduled to strike on 9 April from 10.30 am to 2.30 pm CET. <\/p>\n<p>The industrial action is expected to affect some flights to and from Milan and Naples airports.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe would like to reassure customers that we are doing all possible to minimise any disruption as a result of the strike action and should any flights be impacted we will be contacting customers directly with their options to help rearrange their plans,\u201d the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/travel\/2024\/09\/19\/georgia-could-be-surprise-2025-summer-hotspot-as-ba-and-easyjet-launch-direct-flights-from\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>airline<\/strong><\/a> told UK newspaper The Independent.<\/p>\n<p>Greece: Air traffic controllers plan walkouts<\/p>\n<p>The Italian industrial action comes on the same day as strikes in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/travel\/2025\/03\/06\/authorities-in-greek-island-of-santorini-reaffirm-safety-as-priority-ahead-tourist-season\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Greece<\/strong><\/a>, potentially aggravating travel disruption across the continent. <\/p>\n<p>Greek air traffic controllers have planned a 24-hour strike called by the public sector employee federation ADEDY on 9 April. <\/p>\n<p>ADEDY is demanding the reinstatement of bonus holiday salaries, real wage increases and measures to combat Greece\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/travel\/2024\/04\/09\/it-was-ours-but-now-its-gone-residents-in-europes-tourist-hotspots-slam-second-home-owners\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>housing crisis<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUnfortunately, air traffic control in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/travel\/2025\/03\/07\/black-sands-and-famous-sunsets-top-things-to-do-as-santorini-reopens-after-a-month-of-eart\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Greece<\/strong><\/a> is in a bad situation as we have staffing shortages and equipment problems which cause a lot of delays in the last years and will cause a lot this year as well,\u201d the Greek Air Traffic Controllers\u2019 Association told The Independent. <\/p>\n<p> \u200bThe group added that staff would restrict flight handling during the walkout to medical and search and rescue services, humanitarian aid and military flights, and emergencies, according to the Greek media.<\/p>\n<p>This means commercial flights to and from the country will bear the brunt of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/travel\/2024\/10\/21\/tourists-in-greece-targeted-by-protesters-demanding-better-wages-and-fair-working-hours\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>disruption<\/strong><\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Travellers are advised to check flight statuses regularly and prepare for delays and cancellations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ADVERTISEMENT Air travel faces disruption in Europe this week as employees in the aviation sector threaten to 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