Flights grounded as air traffic controllers strike in Greece

A strike held by Greek civil servants grounded aircraft for 24 hours yesterday (10 November).

The civil servants staged the action to demand higher pay and protest against the government's spending cuts.

Olympic Airlines and Aegean Airlines cancelled their flights as the Greek air traffic controllers took part in the action. There was no air traffic at all at Athens Airport, according to a spokeswoman for the airport.

Manolis Antoniadis, the head of the air traffic controllers' union, said that the air traffic controllers only served overflights, Reuters reported.

 

 
 




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