Rapidly growing demand, shortage of personnel and outbreaks of labor conflicts in airlines. It’s the perfect cocktail that puts airports at risk. summer. If you add to this the few police officers at the border control, then the panorama threatens with long lines, waiting and cancellations that will cause more than one headache for thousands of travelers during holiday.

Cabin crew stops EasyJet D Ryanair called before 9 a.m. that 26 canceled flights have been canceled and that 46 more have been delayed, according to strike unions.

Barcelona airport was the hardest hit. El Prat and one of Palma de Mallorca, in each of which eight Ryanair flights were suppressed. in Adolfo Suarez-Madrid Barajas there were two of them, as in those Valencia, Santiago de Compostela as well as Ibiza. For its part, the EasyJet shutdowns have resulted in the cancellation of four flights: two to El Prat and two more to Palma.

EasyJet flight attendants go on strike until Sunday 17th at airports Barcelona, Malaga D Palma de Mallorca and on July 29, 30 and 31 there will be new protests demanding higher wages for the homologation of crew members from other countries in our environment with a 40% increase in base wages and an allowance for flying hours.

Unions Ryanair They went on a 12-day strike to try and get the Irish low-cost airline to negotiate collective agreement. The USO union this Thursday condemned the firing of seven Ryanair flight attendants for following the strike and disobeying the Irish airline’s orders. In total, according to the aforementioned union, there are three layoffs based in Malaga, two in Barcelona, ​​one in Girona and one in Santiago de Compostela.

Outside of Spain, airports are so busy that a Londoner Heathrow It will limit its capacity to 100,000 passengers per day until 9/11. In addition, airport officials want airlines to stop selling more summer tickets to avoid more saturation. Emirates airline Emirates was very critical of this decision. “They want to force Emirates to deny their seats to tens of thousands of passengers who have paid for and booked a long-awaited vacation months in advance,” the company said.

And the situation does not look good at the European and global level. In total, European airlines canceled 15,788 flights scheduled for August due to strikes and staff shortages, representing 2% of their total schedule. Turkish Airlines canceled 4,408 flights; British Airways, 3600; EasyJet, 2045; Lufthansa, 1888; and Wizz Air, 1256. Globally, the number of canceled flights in August is 25,378.