Finnair cancels flights due to industrial action

Finland’s flag-carrier airline, Finnair, said it has been forced to cancel almost 300 flights amid a nationwide solidarity strike for postal workers.

The carrier, whose home airport at Helsinki acts as a major hub for Europe-Asia connections, said around 20,000 passengers would be affected by Monday’s action.

It comes after the Finnish airport workers’ union joined a solidarity strike on behalf of 9,000 employees at the publicly owned postal service Posti, who have been on a two-week strike against pay cuts.

Finland’s chief labour conciliator, Vuokko Piekkala, said on Sunday attempts to forge an agreement in the dispute had failed, after extensive negotiations over the weekend.

Finnair spokeswoman Paivyt Tallqvist said that the airline could operate some 120 of our 377 flights scheduled for Monday.

 

Via Reuters/Euronews