Ryanair Strike Disrupts 20,000 Passengers, Cancels 152 Flights at Charleroi Airport
This weekend, 152 flights (76 round-trip flights), including those serving Morocco, are being canceled at Charleroi-Brussels-South airport, Ryanair’s base and Belgium’s second busiest airport for passenger traffic. The reason is a strike by the low-cost Irish airline’s cabin crew.
The cancellation of these flights between Saturday and Sunday will impact "some 20,000 passengers," said Charleroi-Brussels-South airport in a statement, specifying that no cancellations are planned at Brussels Airport, where flights are operated from other Ryanair bases outside Belgium.
The approximately 400 flight attendants of the Irish low-cost company had already observed a strike movement from December 30 to January 1, leading to about a hundred flight cancellations in Charleroi, recalls Air Journal. They are blaming the low-cost airline’s management for forcing employees to work on other sites in Europe, notably in Dublin.
