Brussels Airways on Friday mentioned that it might cancel the vast majority of its flights scheduled for October 1 resulting from a nationwide strike by safety personnel in Belgium. The airline, based mostly at Brussels Airport, is without doubt one of the key hub carriers throughout the Lufthansa Group.
The nation’s major airport, Brussels Airport, had requested airways to evaluate their flight schedules in anticipation of diminished safety screenings on account of the strike.
In keeping with a Brussels Airways spokesperson, the airline must cancel 80% of its 203 scheduled flights for the day. Affected passengers will probably be supplied with different flight choices, together with the chance to journey on an earlier or later date, or to fly on the identical day by way of one other Lufthansa Group hub.
The airport authorities predicted that a lot of safety workers would participate within the strike, inflicting a considerable disruption to airport operations on that day. Within the earlier month, Brussels Airport dealt with roughly 2.4 million passengers and 18,600 flights, as per the airport’s information.
The upcoming strike in October follows carefully on the heels of latest disruptions at Belgium’s Charleroi airport, a big hub for the low-cost service Ryanair, the place a number of days of strikes by airport workers brought about appreciable flight delays and cancellations.
(With inputs from businesses)
The nation’s major airport, Brussels Airport, had requested airways to evaluate their flight schedules in anticipation of diminished safety screenings on account of the strike.
In keeping with a Brussels Airways spokesperson, the airline must cancel 80% of its 203 scheduled flights for the day. Affected passengers will probably be supplied with different flight choices, together with the chance to journey on an earlier or later date, or to fly on the identical day by way of one other Lufthansa Group hub.
The airport authorities predicted that a lot of safety workers would participate within the strike, inflicting a considerable disruption to airport operations on that day. Within the earlier month, Brussels Airport dealt with roughly 2.4 million passengers and 18,600 flights, as per the airport’s information.
The upcoming strike in October follows carefully on the heels of latest disruptions at Belgium’s Charleroi airport, a big hub for the low-cost service Ryanair, the place a number of days of strikes by airport workers brought about appreciable flight delays and cancellations.
(With inputs from businesses)