European Air Traffic Controllers are striking in a fight against changes emanating from labour reform and\u00a0the Single European Sky\u00a0initiative. Curiously, Greece – normally a big fan of ATC strikes during the summer – has remained off the radar.<\/p>\n
Here’s the latest, and it’s a growing list:<\/strong><\/p>\n France Italy Iceland Portugal We’ll keep this page updated as we get\u00a0updates.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" European Air Traffic Controllers are striking in a fight against changes emanating from labour reform…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":728,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[506,89,217,44,354,41,483],"class_list":{"0":"post-727","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-special-report","8":"tag-air-traffic-control-strikes","9":"tag-atc-strike","10":"tag-europe","11":"tag-france","12":"tag-iceland","13":"tag-italy","14":"tag-portugal"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=727"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/727\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":767,"href":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/727\/revisions\/767"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n<\/strong>– Ongoing ATC Strikes – the latest ended on 06JUL at 0400Z. Nothing else on the horizon – for now.
\n– French overseas territories are also included in these strikes – so Tahiti, New Caledonia, Martinique, Guadeloupe have all joined in the action when it takes place.<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>– Strike announced for 23JUL, affecting Area Control Centre’s and Airports in Italy. Normally Italian strikes permit overflying traffic without restriction.<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>– Ongoing sporadic strike action affecting BIKF, BIRK airports, and BIRD Oceanic FIR. Occasional entire closures of the airspace except for Emergency and scheduled flights. Eastbound Traffic from the US\/Canada to Europe not accepted during these closures unless destination is in Scandinavia, the Baltics, or Russia.
\n– Since first week of July, westbound traffic is also not accepted in BIRD during strike periods. Check BIRD Notams.<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>– Strikes announced for every Friday in July\u00a0<\/strong>were cancelled last week<\/p>\n