Japan
11, Jan. JAL, Japanese Airlines could go belly up this week if Japanese government doesn't give a a bail out. Declared bankruptcy today. Badin, Matli Larkana, Qambar and Shahdad Kot all closed. Transport to Karachi from Quetta and interior parts of Balochistan are stranded due to unavailability of transport.
Pakistan
6. Feb. 2010 Countrywide strike, protest over deadly blasts in Karachi, whole country in mourning.
Karachi truck strike, transporters have announced an indefinite strike, 18 February. Also a protest rally February 10 and hunger strike 12, Feb. Truckers want government to lower fuel prices which took effect Feb, 1
To save power, Bangladesh bans suits and ties
6/09 Pakistan shut down the Peshawar Airport on Wednesday for all domestic and international flights for an "indefinite period"
Philippines Airlines
Ground staff issue notice of strike, all parties meet February, 4. Operating loss of 301.4-million-dollars last year. Half the loss of British Airways!
Thailand
2/26/09 American Airlines pilots looking to cause flight disruptions and chaos
Looking to restore 2003 concessions.
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10/2/08 AA American Airlines unions are getting restless aviationblog.dallasnews
Dec, 08 Southwest Airlines, ground crews with mediator.
7/30/08 United Airlines reach another lowest of the low, on a go slow. Despicable.per ETR
Morocco
Taxi, bus and truck strike threat for February 8th, 2010. 55 unions and labour associations had joined forces to block implementation of new transportation laws.
Separate general strike being planned for April, 2010
Egypt
Royal Air Maroc pilots strike action,
Shaky Airline Status
American Airlines pilots unrest
America
American Airlines flight attendants, end of bargaining session 1/21/10
Spirit Airlines, pilots looking for contract after two and half years negotiations. more
1/21/10 Oakland, California, truck strike over new RFID system, requires trucks to have a tag stating truck is in compliance with the California Air Resources Board truck registry database.
7, Jan. 2010 Mesa Air group chapter, 11
1/22/10 O'Hare and Midway Airport snow removal drivers threaten strike for next week. Weather
Dems push easier path for unions to strike by Glenn Blain nydailynews.com
1/15/10 Richmond Virginia, bus strike threat, union voting Sunday.
Washington DC, sporadic taxi strikes.
Canada
Hertz rental car, Vancouver, union members have authorized strike notice. Could be as early as this Friday, 1/29.Limited to Vancouver International Airport, downtown locations, and some satellite locations in hotels.
Peru
1/22/10 Peruvian transportation strike over.
1/21/10 Peru transportation strike is now considered indefinite. 1,500 tourists from Argentina, Brazil and Chile planning to visit Colca Valley, Cusco and Arequipa beaches are stranded if they can't afford air fare. Government arranging the use of civil flights with aircraft of the armed forces to get the frail and "emergency only" travelers to their destination. Call Ministry of Transport and Communication for help.
Strike is also observed in Huancayo.
1/20/10 Puno, tourists stranded at regional terminal. No service in Arequipa, Tacna and Moquegua.
1/19/10 Peru transportation strike. Peru has declared in emergency all the transports services (passengers and cargo), and has issued a decree authorizing the Armed Forces to collaborate with the police in order to keep the roads cleared.
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Bahamas
8, Dec.09 Air Bahamas, employees not getting paid. Union given management 7 days to fix problem.
Costa Rica
Costa Rica Port Strike
Honduras
9/22/09 Interim President Roberto Micheletti ordered a 26-hour shutdown of the capital Tegucigalpa beginning Monday afternoon,
closed the airport and set up roadblocks on highways leading into town. Hoping to keep out X president Zelaya and his supporters.
United States will temporarily restrict the issuing of U.S. visas in Honduras.
US State Department warned citizens to avoid all nonessential travel to Honduras due to "current unstable political and security situation"
8/8/09 Honduran national airline TACA has been forced to suspend all national and international flights.
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Amsterdam, public transportation strike
Denmark
Copenhagen International Airport
Cleaning, luggage handlers, security staff have walked out. No cancellations expected.
England, Scotland and Wales.
London underground strike
Reminder next one is Valentines day.
6, Feb. Sat. Update severe delays on Circle, District, Hammersmith & City, and the Metropolitan. Metropolitan line was suspended between Baker Street and Aldgate and the District line suspended between Putney Bridge and Wimbledon. The industrial action is affecting all underground lines except the Jubilee, Northern and Piccadilly lines.
London underground strike, by 700 tube maintenance staff. Issue over rosters and out sourcing that will effect 30 workers. Victoria, Bakerloo and Central routes. When?
24 hours, Friday, Feb. 5, starting 6:45am, and Sunday,14, February, Valentine Day, again 24 hours starting same time. Every Sunday from then on, again 24 hours, starting 06:45 RMT union workers will strike till dispute is over. See Transport for London website for delays
UK, customs, border, immigration,
Possible potential travel nightmare could be coming in/out of the UK. 270,000 Public and Commercial Services union (PCS) members threatening strikes designed to bring maximum disruption on run up to election. Workers, include air traffic controllers, customs, border, immigration, museums and galleries including the Tate and the British Library, Royal palaces and police support. PCS union members will be balloted this Thursday. On the ballot unspecified "discontinuous action". First two-day strike would start on on 8 or 11 March.In short, strikes over redundancy pay.
British Airways
Update 5 Feb. Unite will not call strikes at British Airways over the Easter holiday and guess what they made a profit 25 million pounds ($39 million) in the fiscal third quarter ended Dec. 31!
Update on British Airways cabin crew, re-balloting will start 22, Jan and continue for one month. Look for strike around March 1, 2010
Last time.:-British Airways, strike deemed illegal, Not to be outdone in a separate action the security, administrative and maintenance will be balloted. BA adding fees, follow along
South Wales rail strike, Marches line, six days in 2010
Manchester Airport delays?
Gatwick Airport disruptions?
Stansted Airport delays?
Luton Airport delays?
Heathrow Airport delays?
Scotland
Scotrail strike threat in February
Finland
Finnish ports
3, Feb. 24 hour, Finnish port strikes country wide today. will not effect passenger traffic. Next Finnish port strike Friday, Feb. 19
The Finnish Transport Workers' Union has issued a strike warning concerning over 10,000 drivers. Contract talks have broken down. Expect strike action to affect bus drivers and truck drivers later this month.
Helsinki Central Railway Square, metro station is closed for one more week due to a mysterious hole in the wall, last November, which caused the tracks to become flooded. Lifts will not be operational till June. 5 million euro fix.
France
French train travel 2010
Paris trade unions, Federation of railways, CFDT, CGT, UNSA, and SUD. Nationwide strike, starting Tuesday, 2, February, 8pm till 8am, Thursday, 4, February, 2010.
French Air Travel
Double Whammy.
French Air Traffic Controllers to strike end of February, unconfirmed reports, end of February, from the 23rd to 27th could lead to some serious disruptions.
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Air France strike, pilot strike, big one, a whole week-end. Two pilot unions UNPL and R'Way have given notice of a strike. From Friday, 26 February to Monday, 1, March 2010. Air France assurances that passengers will not be affected
1/11/10 Brest Bretagne Airport strike.
Air France flight status
Strike action in France :Thayls
9/21/09 Paris’ underground bone collection, the catacombs, has been closed to the public indefinitely after being vandalized.
Germany
8 Feb. Update:-Public works strike in Hanover region today, bus and metro drivers did not show up for work along with a 1,000 public workers.
5. Feb. S-Bahn train and U-Bahn metro workers on strike till midnight. another transportation strike this coming Monday. Dusseldorf and Cologne/Bonn airports have been hit with delays. Powerful union Verdi has called on several thousand employees in Hesse, Saarland, Saxony and Saxony-Anhalt to strike today.
6 January, 10, Lufthansa airline pilots will be balloted for industrial action next week, if it's a yes look for Lufthansa Airline pilots strike February 2010.
Balloting ends 17, February, union could strike anytime after. Codeshares with Jetblue. Lufhansa pilot strike.
Greece, Greek strike
Update:-Feb.8 Greek Air Traffic Control Strike will hold rolling strikes this Wednesday
4 separate 3 hour strikes, starting 4am and ending 10:30pm.
5. Feb. Farmers scaling back protest at borders. Customs officers announce more strike dates, 16 to 18 February.
4 Feb. 10 Update, Greek farmers strike is still going on. Next up is Greek customs strike, 48 hours starting this Thursday. Expect severe delays at all entry points into Greece, Athens, airports, ports and all borders. Expect possible gas shortage. 20 Km line of trucks either side of the border going into/out of Bulgaria. Kulata-Promahon is blocked for all traffic Wednesday, 150 trucks on line.
The border cross point at Ilinden-Eksohi is also closed for trucks, but cars and buses are let through.Ormenion and Zlatograd are open for traffic. The road at Zlatograd, however, is not accessible for tractor-trailers.
Update Greek farmers strike ended 1/24/2010
1/21/10 Day 4, Truckers and passenger cars travelling from Greece to Bulgaria stuck at border blockade by Greek farmers. Koulata–Promahon border crossing was opened for 30 minutes, allowing only lorries with time-sensitive foodstuffs to pass through. Central Greece, Thessalia, and the roads leading to the northern Greek port town of Kavala are also shut for traffic. Bulgarian border police have said that the Greek farmers periodically open and then shut the border crossing points at Doiran–Evzoni in the region of Kilkis, Ormenion–Kapitan Petko Voivoda in the region of Evros and Exohi–Ilinden towards Drama. Bulgarian economy about three million leva every day. Exports and transport firms hurting. Tourism, tourist destinations in southwestern Bulgaria, the alpine town of Bansko in particular are reporting substantial financial losses.The "embargo" on the Greek-Bulgarian border has hit Bansko, costing the resort about 480 000 euro a day.
Athens, Greece, 24 hour Greek general strike is being planned Wednesday, Feb. 10, 2010.
Greek civil servants' union ADEDY called a one day strike for Feb. 10 to protest against the government's austerity measures. GSEE will decide in February. Hospitals will be emergency only.
Update:- Greece, Greek private sector GSEE labour union, 2 million members will strike, an anti-austerity, 24 hours, Wednesday, Feb. 24.
2010, Delays at Sofia airport
Athens airport departures
Hungary
Update, Malev Pilots have agreed not to strike till after new year. Baggage handlers playing up.
Ireland
Italy
Update:-The Italian government on Wednesday ordered the postponement of strikes by Alitalia and Meridiana airline staff planned for this week.
Alitalia pilots and flight attendants strike, Friday, February, 5 10am-2pm, pilots, flight attendants.
Meridiana strike, 4 hours, 12-4, Tuesday, 16, February, 10
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Poland
Poland, Lot airlines threaten bankruptcy
Portugal
Tap Portugal,
Spain
Delays, departures
Madrid-Barajas Airport departures serves Easyjet, Ryanair
4, Feb. Air traffic controllers, contract negotiations broke down today, threatening not to do over time from April on. Spanish ATC's contract expire March 31, four days before Easter Sunday.
1/17/10 Spanish Air traffic controllers, on an unofficial strike, go slow. Expect delays from this tactic during Easter. "undercover industrial action". Try flying to Spain via Southern France or Portuguese airports for your holiday. Going to Canary Islands, Palma de Majorca and Alicante? Expect severe delays over Easter.
Spanish airline Air Comet bankrupt, forced to earth, belly up. Thousands stranded in Spain and Latin America. Air Comet Website is down. Owned by Spanish tourism and transportation company Grupo Marsans. números de teléfono (91 5978321, 91 5975075 y 91 5977231) para facilitar información a los pasajeros o usuarios de Air Comet.
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Lufthansa, first major European airline to fly to Baghdad starting mid year after 20 years.
Bahrain
1/14/10 Gulf Air cutting back one flight a day from UK. Will promote tourism more. Bahrain Airshow, V* Supercar races and Grand Prix in March.
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