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Ryanair resumes Charleroi flights after agreement over strikes
Ryanair has reached an agreement with Brussels South Charleroi Airport to resume flights from November 12 following strikes at the airport in June.
The airline said it has “addressed all concerns” and would therefore release all seats for sale from November 12 onwards, now that passengers “would no longer suffer repeats of the wildcat strike of 15/17 June last, which stranded over 22,500 passengers at Brussels Charleroi Airport”.
Ryanair said it particularly welcomed the recent agreement between the Ministry of Transport and the public service unions, which guarantees they will give a minimum of 48 hours’ notice of any future strikes in order for passengers to make alternative arrangements.
“Ryanair has resumed negotiations with Brussels South Charleroi Airport about further growth and new route development now that this threat of future unannounced strikes has been removed,” it said in a statement.
“The primary concern of both Ryanair and BSCA in this matter was to ensure that 22,500 passengers would never again be stranded at Brussels Charleroi Airport.”
By Bev Fearis
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Editor in chief Bev Fearis has been a travel journalist for 25 years. She started her career at Travel Weekly, where she became deputy news editor, before joining Business Traveller as deputy editor and launching the magazine’s website. She has also written travel features, news and expert comment for the Guardian, Observer, Times, Telegraph, Boundless and other consumer titles and was named one of the top 50 UK travel journalists by the Press Gazette.
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