Air transport in difficulty? between queues, delays and strikes. Travel ? really hard

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It is not; certainly a happy time for air transport in Europe . At most airports there are queues for check-in and multiple delays and flight cancellations . A complex situation that is making it really difficult to travel by plane. As we know, the pandemic had severely penalized the air transport sector with companies that had been forced to lay off some of their staff.

Now, with the end of the restrictions there & # 39; & egrave; was a quick recovery that & egrave; arrived in conjunction with the summer period when you move more & ugrave; because of the holidays. This has sent several airports and airlines into crisis that have not been able to handle the strong demand for flights from customers.

The problem is; than to increase the staff quickly & egrave; very difficult. There is was then the classic rebound of responsibilities between airlines and airports. The reality & egrave; that probably yes & egrave; speed underestimated; of the recovery . The immediate consequences of these critical issues they have poured out on travelers who are forced to suffer heavy inconveniences. To avoid “traffic jams”, several airlines already have; decided to cut part of the scheduled flights, further complicating the possibilities; of people's travel.

THE STRIKES tomorrow 25 June they will strike in Italy the crews of Ryanair, EasyJet and Volotea . Malta Air and the company will also stop. CrewLinks revolving around Ryanair.

The strike by Ryanair, Malta Air and Crewlink is; coordinated at European level and does not only concern Italy. In fact, it will cover also pilots and flight attendants based in Spain, Portugal, France and Belgium. As far as our country is concerned, the strike (Ryanair) took place; made it necessary, explain the unions, & quot; to ask for employment contracts in line with the minimum wages provided for by the national collective agreement for the sector, so & igrave; as required by Italian law. But they also strike for the cancellation of wage cuts and for the lack of water and food for the crews, often unable to get off the plane even for 14 consecutive hours & quot ;.

Therefore, flying on the weekend could be much more; complex. For those who plan to move during the day of the strike, on the ENAC website & egrave; a list of guaranteed flights is available.

TRAVELING IN EUROPE? HARD

A concrete example of the inconveniences that passengers have to suffer in this period? I went this week to Spain to try the Lightyear 0, the car that recharges with the sun. Above all on the way but also on the way back. gone more or not all wrong. The flight plan included two routes: Venice-Munich and Munich-Bilbao (vice versa for the return journey).

The flight from Venice to Munich I took the most times and has never had any major problems, except for a few small delays in the order of 15 minutes at most. Monday & igrave; things went very differently. In summary, for a flight of 40-45 minutes there & # 39; & egrave; was a delay that in the end & egrave; arrived at almost 2 hours. Delay that complicated my trip because & eacute; I missed the connection in Munich and had to take another flight with waiting times at the German airport of about 4 hours .


The thing that bothered not only me but also the other passengers the most & egrave; been the absence of any kind of support . Nobody & egrave; came to explain to us what was happening and how we had to behave to manage missed connections. The info-point near the Gate was empty. Kindly, some operators of another airline at the Gate made a call to ask for someone to come and give us support. The wait is been over 40 minutes ….

Who then & egrave; arrived he & quot; opened his arms & quot; saying that there is a lack of staff and that this, unfortunately, is; the & quot; normality; & quot; for a while of time. Indeed, the list of delays on the start board was quite numerous. I open a parenthesis. Upon arrival, there is was a & quot; sample check & quot ;. Basically, exiting the plane, the police checked the identity card. or passport to all passengers, slowing down the landing . Mind you, the controls are fair and sacrosanct but with a plane delayed by almost 2 hours and with people who were in a hurry to go out to take the connection, it really didn't take …

& quot; Obviously & quot; , also the second flight, the one to Bilbao, & egrave; departed late, about 40 minutes. According to the original plan, I was supposed to arrive in Spain at 6 pm, instead, I arrived almost at midnight. The return? It could be said in an ironic way that & egrave; went better since the delays were more & ugrave; contents. Gi & agrave; 2 hours before departure I received a message from the airline about an initial delay of 15 minutes. Eventually it became about 40. “Fortunately” the flight from Munich to Venice was also delayed (20 minutes), so I managed to get it but just sleeping …

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