Strikes at Spanish airport
Strike action will take place today at Girona Airport in northern Spain.
Ryanair, which operates from the airport, says it will operate a full schedule of flights despite the industrial action by baggage handlers.
It is asking all passengers departing from Barcelona Girona to use its web check-in service and travel with carry-on luggage only in order to ensure their travel plans are not cancelled due to strike action.
Passengers who wish to travel with checked in luggage will be able to switch to later flights or travel from another Spanish airport.
Passengers intending to travel from Barcelona Girona between the June 17 and 20 should check www.ryanair.com on whether checked luggage will be accepted.
Ryanair’s Stephen McNamara said: “Ryanair will not allow the UGT Union to blackmail passengers during the important, busy summer season.
“This strike comes at a time of unprecedented unemployment and UGT members, like everyone else in the tourism industry, should be doing their best to promote and encourage air travel, not disrupt it.â€
By Bev Fearis
Bev
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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