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Air transport: Black Saturday for travellers due to national strike from 1pm to 5pm

Enac published a list of guaranteed flights during the strike

Aggiornato il 25 luglio 2025, ore 12:34

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The four-hour protest will involve flight personnel, including pilots, flight attendants and ground staff from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. .

Specifically, to cross their arms will be the workers of companies operating in the aviation-airport sector, associated with Confindustria, Federcatering, Assocntrol, Assaereo, Assaeroporti Assohandlers, Assocatering, Assologistica, Fairo. Except for flights to and from Palermo.

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The protest crosses that of the Swissport workers in Milan (Linate airport), proclaimed by Uiltrasporti, Fit Cisl and Filt Cgil, and that of the workers at Fiumicino airport, also from 1pm to 5pm.

The workers of the Volotea company are also on strike. 

Enac has published a list of flights guaranteed during the strike, including: all domestic flights already underway at the start of the strike, departures scheduled before the strike and delayed for reasons beyond the control of the parties, domestic and international arrivals scheduled within 30 minutes of the start of the strike, and intercontinental flights.

The strike proclaimed by Usb

Strike announced on 22 July by Usb - will affect the management/handlers/catering sectors - after a 64-year-old worker, employed by a contracting company, died the day before when he fell to his death from the roof of the terminal on which he was carrying out work on the air-conditioning system. "If, on the one hand, we will necessarily have to wait for the outcome of the investigations to understand all the responsibilities," reads a Usb note, "on the other hand, it is clear that the failure or partial application of all the protective measures that caused the accident is part of the logic of the obsession with production push and cost cutting, linked in particular to the perverse logic of contracts.

"In expressing our full solidarity with the family of the deceased worker," Usb concludes, "we are aware that weeping is of no use; it is much more important to fight so that this massacre stops claiming the lives of workers;

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