Strike at Geneva Airport leads to flight cancellations and delays
Published: Sunday, Dec 24th 2023, 10:50
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The strike by employees of the ground handling company Dnata at Geneva Airport led to flight cancellations and delays on Sunday. Negotiations between the VPOD union and the company management took place on Sunday morning.
"One flight has been canceled due to the strike, but further flight cancellations are to be expected during the day, when 52,000 passengers are expected," Ignace Jeanneratc, spokesman for Geneva Airport, told the Keystone-SDA news agency. Delays are also to be expected and some passengers will be leaving without their luggage.
Dnata is handling 85 of the 419 scheduled flights on Sunday, which corresponds to around 20 percent. The strike is therefore likely to have less impact than a strike that blocked airport operations at the end of June shortly before the start of the vacation season.
Around 100 Dnata employees gathered with banners in front of the departure terminal on Sunday morning, as a Keystone-SDA editor discovered at the scene. The banners read: "Precarious work, plane on the ground". The strikers wore neon yellow vests and showed their determination: "We will not let up!".
However, negotiations with the management continued on Sunday morning. According to the VPOD union, the management took a "half step" towards the strikers by dropping the threatened sanctions against them. The union demanded five percent more pay and bonuses depending on the severity of the work.
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