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FLIGHT RELIEF
osta Blanca and Mar Menor-bound holidaymakers and ex-pats heading back to the UK can breathe a sigh of relief as the two biggest French air traffic control unions called off a long weekend of strike action that was due to start yesterday. But there was still misery for users of Alicante-Elche and San Javier airports as Wednesday’s breakthrough came too late for carriers like Ryanair and Easyjet to reverse their plans to cancel services yesterday. EasyJet had expected a 'large impact' to its sched-
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Friday 3rd June 2016
BY ALEX TRELINSKI ules as around 65% of its flights use French airspace. "We have been working very hard to minimise the impact on our customers, but just like other airlines,
we have been forced to cancel flights ahead of the strike," the company said. A dozen Ryanair flights to and from Spain were scrapped yesterday.
The three main air traffic control unions had threated industrial action from yesterday until Sunday, with major disruption to services that fly over France to destinations like Spain. It would have been the ninth strike action in three months and had threatened to hit families returning to the UK after the half-term holidays. But after last-minute talks with two of the unions on Wednesday night, the strikes were called off, with a third union also reaching an agreement yesterday meaning that the dispute over work contracts was finally settled.
GUARDIA COLLAPSE
70-year-old woman who went to make a complaint at the Guardia Civil’s barracks in Torrevieja had an even bigger gripe after her visit, after the plastic chair that she sat on in the reception area collapsed. As a result, she suffered a suspected fractured knee that meant an unscheduled visit to hospital. The non-Spanish speaker went to the Guardia on Monday lunchtime, and there was a printed note put up by officers which she could not understand. She sat down and the chair gave way, with an ambulance called in to take her to Torrevieja
Hospital. The local Guardia union, the AUGC, say that they’d already warned their bosses
about the state of the chairs in the reception area, but nothing had been done about it. The AUGC say that the
unnamed woman has joined them in denouncing the state of the furniture, which has since been removed.
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