Friday, July 6, 2012

Not sure Easyjet can call them contingency plans if they release them a mere 2 days ahead. We know t




The Portuguese air traffic services (NAV) strike planned between 28 June and 3 July might not happen as the Ministry of Economy and workers union SITAVA s appear to have reached common ground after negotiations. Tonight s meeting between the union and NAV workers will prove decisive.
C alled by NAV workers, the impending strike could be called off after the Ministry of Economy and the Aviation and Airports Workers Union (SITAVA) have come to a mutual understanding about the demands made by NAV workers to be exempt from austerity canada car rentals cuts, according to newspaper Sol .
The threat of a strike by NAV workers, who include air traffic canada car rentals controllers , forced many airlines to reschedule or cancel canada car rentals many flights for Friday 29 June. Some flights would start to be affected as early as Thursday.
Portuguese national airline TAP -Air Portugal has cancelled four flights on Thursday and rescheduled eleven others. The flag carrier also announced canada car rentals it had cancelled a total of 118 flights and connections to other European cities between 29 June and 3 July .
To avoid cancelling all of its flights TAP rescheduled a small number between 28 and 29 June. Most of these involve flights which have either been brought forward or delayed. Details on all cancelled and rescheduled flights are available on their website .
TAP Public Relations Director António Monteiro told PDV the company expects to lose "€5m a day with this strike, totalling €25m," and that it will affect some 440,000 passengers. canada car rentals This occurs during what the airline sees as the high season.
EasyJet has also prepared canada car rentals contingency canada car rentals plans that "will involve a mix of flight cancellations , re-timings (later departures) and some flights operating from Seville and Santiago de Compostela ". Earlier this Wednesday EasyJet published a list of changes for its Friday flights only, and a new list will be published Thursday concerning Saturday flights, and so on.
Not sure Easyjet can call them contingency plans if they release them a mere 2 days ahead. We know the strike will be till Tuesday so why can easyjet not tell us their contingency plans more in advance? if i fly to portugal on thursday I have no assurance that I can return for work on Sunday. Better would be to indicate, if needs be, which of their flights will be delayed and which will be cancelled (Luton canada car rentals or Gatwick from Lisbon, for example).

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