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Innsbruck: Trade Air Fokker 100 had to make a safety landing in Zagreb

Jan Gruber June 25, 2022 11:01

On the way from Thessaloniki to Innsbruck, the Croatian airline Trade Air had to make an unscheduled landing in Zagreb on Friday with the only Fokker 100 in the fleet. The aircraft with the registration 9A-BTE had a technical defect. Trade Air was flying the Fokker 100 on behalf of the tour operator Idealtours. The flight was on its way back from Thessaloniki to Innsbruck under flight number C3 703. On the afternoon of June 24, 2022, the pilots received a warning display in the cockpit and therefore decided to make an intermediate landing in Zagreb at low altitude and slow speed. The cause was a hydraulic failure. The crew was able to land the jet safely. There were 100 passengers on board. There was no danger to the travelers at any time. Trade Air's home base is in Zagreb, so the necessary technical inspection or repairs can be carried out there. However, this was unfortunate for Idealtours holidaymakers, as the other charter flights planned with this aircraft from Innsbruck had to be cancelled. At the beginning of this week, Trade Air stepped in and brought those passengers who were left stranded by Eurowings Europe on Sunday to their holiday destination in Lamezia Terme. Last weekend, the Lufthansa subsidiary was unable to operate two Airbus A319s stationed in Salzburg due to a lack of staff. Idealtours should also have flown to Lamezia Terme via the aircraft rotation. Austrian Airlines also had cancellations in Innsbruck, as the OS913 (Vienna-Innsbruck) route was cancelled on Thursday evening. This meant that the connection to the Vienna hub, which had been planned for 6

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Transavia has to reduce services in Amsterdam

Amely Mizzi June 25, 2022 10:02

The low-cost airline Transavia alone has to cancel around 200 flights from Amsterdam-Schiphol. The background to this is that the Dutch government has decided that capacity must be reduced due to the acute shortage of staff. KLM and other carriers also have to reduce their Schiphol offerings planned for summer 2022. Many passengers are currently receiving notifications from their airlines that the flights booked for July and August 2022 will not take place as originally planned. The carriers' approach varies. Transavia boss Marcel de Nooijer explains, among other things: "There is a group that is the victim of this capacity reduction. That hurts. That is a huge loss for our passengers and for our company. The forced reduction in the number of passengers is highly undesirable and must be a one-off and short-lived." Olivier Jankovec, General Director of the airport association ACI Europe, says, among other things: "In many ways, Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport is what makes the Netherlands greater than it is. From this point of view, there is no doubt that the government's decision to significantly reduce airport capacity will make the Netherlands smaller."

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Heathrow: British Airways ground staff shortly before the strike

Amely Mizzi June 25, 2022 09:01

British Airways will now also join the latest strike season, as the ground staff stationed at the home base London Heathrow voted to go on strike. The responsible unions Unite and GMB want to call for a strike lasting several days. The background to this is that the employee representatives are of the opinion that the fact that previous pay cuts have been reversed in the management area but not for ground staff. Depending on the occupational group, up to ten percent of the monthly salary is at stake. The unions do not want to accept this and it is currently not ruled out that the work stoppages could be extended to flight attendants and pilots. There is also a dispute with their representatives. British Airways has officially expressed its disappointment that the BA ground staff at Heathrow voted to go on strike. Nevertheless, it wants to continue negotiating and hopes that the strike can be prevented in this way. The unions are less optimistic, as they first want to see a significantly improved offer. BA counters that one-off payments were turned down and that the company has made losses of around four billion pounds due to the pandemic. Employee representatives plan to announce their strike dates in the next few days. If work is stopped, chaos can be expected at Heathrow.

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Ryanair downplays work stoppages and warns of ATC strike

Jan Gruber June 25, 2022 08:02

On Friday, strikes took place at Ryanair Group airlines in various European countries. The company is downplaying these, however, and even claims that the work stoppages are "barely supported". According to its own information, Ryanair had to cancel two percent of its planned 3.000 flights on Friday. The lion's share affected Belgium, as 40 percent of connections to/from Charleroi and Brussels-Zaventem had to be cancelled. The company claims that the willingness to strike is particularly low in Italy, Spain, Portugal, France, Ireland and the United Kingdom. "The vast majority of Ryanair crews are working normally," the company said. For the weekend, "only minimal, if any, disruption to the flight schedule is expected as a result of these very minor and barely supported work stoppages". The budget airline is facing a very different situation in France, however, as air traffic controllers in the center of Marseille will be going on a two-day industrial action. This affects all users of the airspace and Ryanair assumes that this will result in significant delays and cancellations of flights that pass through French airspace. The company says that strikes by its own staff are of no consequence. Regardless, people whose holiday flights have been cancelled are not particularly interested in whether Ryanair believes that strikes are supposedly "hardly supported".

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Commentary: Welcome to Summer Chaos!

Jan Gruber June 25, 2022 07:02

For many holidaymakers, the holidays ended at Cologne/Bonn and Düsseldorf airports because, contrary to all the airports' assurances, there were extremely long waiting times at security checks. In addition, some Ryanair connections had to be cancelled due to strikes. Eurowings left many passengers stranded for completely different reasons. The Verdi union described the conditions at the two largest airports in North Rhine-Westphalia at the start of the holidays as a "disaster foretold". Over a year ago, they had already clearly warned that staff levels in many areas were too low. However, employers reacted far too late and in some cases not at all. The ones who are now suffering are passengers who actually only wanted to fly on holiday. It is not as if there were no signs that major problems were looming, because during the Easter and Whitsun holidays things were already going badly at many airports across Europe, to put it mildly. Demand picked up again and it became clear that the personnel policy that many decision-makers had opted for was completely messed up. Shortly after the start of the Corona pandemic, many employees were laid off and it was assumed that they would come back later anyway. This is a misconception, because many have reoriented themselves in other industries, especially in areas that are not exactly known for top-earning jobs. German short-time work threatens the livelihoods of low-earners The much-praised short-time work in Germany has also not helped to retain employees in areas where many helping hands are needed but the wages are not great.

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