Spain
El Hierro Volcano (Canary Islands) : increase in lava balloons earthquake-report.com
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Spain needs this like a hole in the head.
Temporary Suspension of Schengen Agreement into Barcelona Saturday midnight 28th April to 04th May.
European Central Bank meeting Barcelona Thursday May 3.
Spanish Government suspends Schengen Treaty (allows free movement in the EU)
Serious threat from anarchists and protesters.
Restrictions at 6 French borders and Spanish airports Barcelona and Girona.
2,000 more security agents on duty till midnight Friday
May 4 when restrictions will be repealed.
Saturday 28 April border has been opened up for a while.
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Madrid EasyJet strike Friday Saturday April 27, 28 and Wednesday May 2. Potential to be very disruptive.
Will effect EasyJet flights to and from Madrid. Call EasyJet.
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Iberia Express strike Friday 4, Friday 11 and Monday 14 May, cabin crew belonging to Stavla union. This will effect cabin crew from Iberia Airlines, somehow?
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Airport workers in the Madrid-Barajas airport and Torrejon Air Base (including firemen)
May strike today (Friday 16 March) and
Monday 19 March
Thursday 5 April (in time for Easter Holidays)
Sunday 8 April 6PM - Midnight.
Monday 30 April
Wednesday 2
Thursday 3 May
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Iberia Airline Strike
27 April Big news today, Spanish government has agreed to bring in a mediator. Flights that were canceled 4 and 7 May are good to go. Unfortunately flights before then could not be turned around due time constraints ie attendants and pilots schedules. Of course issues are not resolved, plenty of other competing airlines to choose from LAN, BA...
(17 April announced today, just to add salt into the womb, Iberia pilots will have a 20% pay cut)
Announced 27 March New Iberia pilots strike dates.
Iberia pilots union SEPLA announce 30 Days of strike. Every Monday and Friday starting 9 April to 20 July in protest about the new subsidiary Iberia Express.
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Unions state "the desire to maintain social pressure" after March 29 if situation not rectified and other social formations and willingness to "coordinate" a response of "pressure."
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Sunday 25 March This is the big day for Iberia to launch Iberia Express. Every majour airline is watching this launch looking to do the same thing. Lower wages to new crews and less retirement benefits.
7 October 2011 Iberia Airlines announced new subsidiary "Iberia Express to come into service next summer. Iberian pilots state it's illegal and threaten strike. Get ready for a nasty long drawn out show down. Re-think booking with this airline November, December, New Year and Easter 2012.
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Easter week (Easter Friday the 6th, and Spanish spring school holidays this month
Wednesday 2 May (May 1 labour day, public holiday)
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Tuesday 27 March 2012 Bilbao Metro agreed today that workers will not strike over Easter but will step up strike action afterwards.
Industrial action to take place:-
Monday 16 April.
Friday 20 April
Wednesday 25 April
Friday 27 April.
Times vary. Sometimes 2 hours in AM, which may interrupt commuters, shortage of taxi's, over flow onto other public transport.
Sweden
10 April Toilet roll strike, bring some with you!
British Airways departures and arrivals
Manchester Airport delays?
Reminder regarding liquids AOL
Heathrow Airport delays?
Stansted Airport delays?
Luton Airport delays?
NATS Air traffic controllers.
London Gatwick Airport is a single runway airport. If anything goes wrong with an aircraft on the runway, you will be severely delayed.
Break down of bargain air fares dailymail
Flying over North Pole will knock hours off of long hauls dailymail
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How about staying in this boat hotel for the Olympics dailymail
4 August 2011 Easyjet and Southend airport bbc
£35-a-night no-frills hotel chain by Rachel Quigleydailymail.com
Top 10 Speed cams in UK dailymail
Portugal
We recommend you book a hotel at your airports for just incase. Cancel as you see fit.
Comboios de Portugal Portuguese rail company
SATA Airlines
See SATA face book page
Update:- Strike for 11, 12, 13 cancelled, but 18,19 and 20 still on.
Update:-25 April Your lucky day if flying with SATA this weekend. First of the three strikes (only) has been cancelled.
12 April announced today SATA International airline and SATA Açores pilots threat strike. more
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Portuguese air traffic controllers strike
Expect flight delays or even cancellations. Here is what TAP says for the 17 and 18 May.
11, 17, (some 200 flights cancelled for 17, particularly out of Lisbon) 18, 24 and May 25
2 hours per shift from 07:00 to 09: 00, from 2-4 PM and from 9-11PM on the continent and Madeira). Here's what TAP has to say for the 11th.
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Friday 18 May Workers Union Aviation and Airports (SITAVA) Portuguese airport strike, ANA Group,
ANAM-Madeira Airport, The Portway, The TAP Group,
(but not Groundforce workers) Starts 17 May 8:30pm. You figure it out here's the article from DN
Portuguese Train Strike
Update:-7 May Low strike turnout by workers, system flowing.
Carris train strike between 7 and 13 May 2012 will be a partial strike, 2 hours per shift. Very inconvenient.
Another Portuguese Rail Strike CP
This time it's auditors and ticket office workers.
Aggressive strike. 24 hours per strike in May.
14 15 16 Monday Tuesday Wednesday.
19 20 21 Saturday Sunday and Monday (Saturday and Sunday same day as SATA is to strike)
23 24 25 Wednesday Thursday and Friday. Thursday and Friday the same day as Portuguese air traffic control strike.
Lisbon Metro Strike
Unions recommend workers not do overtime during Rock in Rio music festival.
Thursday 17 May (strike went a head, thousands effected, stations abandoned)
Tuesday 22 May
Aimed clearly at commuters
5:30 and 10:00 general workers
8 AM - Noon administration workers.
Rock in Rio music festival, Lisbon, dates this year
25 and May 26, 01, 02 and June 3.
Italy
Rome guide Tourism and travel guide, find the best of Rome
Arenways route between Milan and Turin has been dropped. Private rail company in financial straights.
enac Italian air traffic controllers
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Update:-3 May This strike is still on. Here's some more news from Avionews
Friday, 4 May will find our friends the baggage handlers back on strike for 24 hours, EasyJet and other airlines may cancel flights at Milan's Linate and Malpensa airports. Bring cash, you may find some banks closed.
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Tuesday May 8, 2012 Meridiana Fly four hours
noon - four PM.
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May 11 Rome Fiumicino airport cleaners 4 hr strike.
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Italian train strike, Trenitalia, 24 hours starting 9 PM Saturday 12 May, ticket offices and train crews. Long distant trains will run.
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Monday 14 May 8 hour bus/trolley strike in Bologna and around the province. 8:30 - 4:30 in the afternoon.
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Strike planned by Trenitalia workers Piedmont region, Thursday/Friday 17 and 18 May has been postponed.
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Sicily
You've got time to plan. Lorry strike, long one, starting midnight Sunday 27 May till Thursday 31 May midnight. Now expect public transport to run out of petrol, airport roads maybe blocked, by Thursday dairy products will be in short supply.
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June 6 Meridiana Fly back on strike four hours 10 am - 2 PM by flight attendants Avionews
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Trenitalia call centre ( 800 892,021)
Rome's Fiumicino Leonardo Express. Toll-free number
(800 892021) to provide assistance to travelers.
Coming to Italy from Switzerland? Swiss Federal Railways can be delayed coming into Italy if an Italian rail strike is going on. Traveling from France, Artesia Railway connecting Paris Gare de Lyon and Paris-Bercy to Turin, Milan, Venice, Florence, Rome.
Remember all Italian strikes are subject to change at the last minute! You will not be abandoned, by law a skeleton schedule must run. Book a strike proof train.
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Left up so you can get a general idea of how different areas handled the general strike. Of course this is only an example. (We've noticed a new trend lately by Italian railway/transport worker unions. They don't seem to like the predictability of the below and have now started causing a slightly more irritating stance. Where each city chooses when they will strike, no more in unisom. Can be as far out as a week from original date. We will conquer this.)
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Public transportation strike
June 10, 2010 Friday, 25, June, Nationwide strike, Bus, metro, tram and trains, Trenitalia, 2-6pm, local cities will have own schedule for striking. Some services are guaranteed. Remember finding a taxi can be difficult. Try to get your hotel to book you one.
Buses:-
* Bari from 20.00 to 24.00
* Bologna from 19.30 to 23.30
* Cagliari 9.00 to 13.00
* Florence from 16.30 to 20.30
* Genoa from 11.30 to 15.30
* Milan from 18.00 to 22.00
* Naples from 9:00 to 13
* Palermo from 9.00 to 13.00
* Rome from 8.30 to 12.30
* Torino from 17:45 to 21:45
* Venice from 10.00 to 13.00
Came across this company today perhaps you will find them useful, a driver service valyoudrivers
Let us know.
This is one of our favorite sites, bit different than the usual content. Italybeyondtheobvious.com
Belgium
Belgian railway strike for 22 May has been withdrawn lavenir.net
ICE Frankfurt, Köln/Cologne
Eurostar:-London- Paris will be fine. Further on Eurostar may terminate in Lille like last strike. Rest of journey with buses.
Thalys:-Paris, Köln/Cologne, Aachen, Amsterdam perhaps no service Brussels Paris Amsterdam and Cologne
TGV Lyon, Bordeaux, Paris-CDG airport
Bruxelles-France
Zürich, Switzerland, via Luxembourg, two trains daily
Amsterdam, Luxembourg run every hour.
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Brussels Airport Zaventem 50Km south of Brussels.
New rail link opening 10 June 2012 for Brussels Airport Diabolo Rail Link AirRail
Brussels airport Departures
Liege Airport arrivals and departures.
South Charleroi Airport departures and arrivals.
Bosnia
Bulgaria
Going to Greece via Bulgaria? You may get caught up in a Greek general strike see below.
Croatia
Norway
Norwegian Airlines
Update:-9 May Pilots call off strike threat from newsinengish
Norwegian Airlines pilots in talks, possible strike on the horizon theforeigner.no
Poland
7 May Belarus border backed up again telgrafby
Switzerland
Zurich Public Transport (VBZ)
Italian train strike see above Swiss trains can/will be delayed.
You can understand this one. Swiss railway workers in Zurich protesting train toilets being dumped on them while they are working on tracks. swissinfo.ch
Turkey
Non EU Member, competitive market for low cost airlines. Pegasus Airlines Turkish Airlines and Easyjet
Ukraine
New 'sarcophagus' for Chernobyl by 2015
Kiev, you can now tour Chernobyl tour kiev
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Germany
Brand new Willy Brandt airport officials delay opening ETR
Frankfurt Airport Strike
3 May Union IG Metall strike still going on thousands of workers striking. Added to this the news that Lufthansa airlines is to let go 3,500 employees.
27 April Huge powerful metal workers union IG Metall has several thousand workers and will strike 10 PM Saturday not sure if this will effect any travel plans.
German tourists to Greece numbers drop due to backlash from bail out and WWll Reuters
31 March Public sector workers get pay raise the local
Best real travel guide to Europe Scroll down for England France Germany Spain
EU will lift ban on liquids in hand luggage 2013
Amsterdam
see Netherlands below
Austria
Austrian Airlines (AUA)
Vienna International Airport (VIA)
15 May Ticket prices are up, pilots told wages will be reduced by 25%. Pilots had a sick out last weekend.
Scroll down for Asia Africa
US airport delays faa.gov
American's Need to Know
Going to Europe using your credit and debit cards? Travelex
Coming to America?
Need to know:-US hurricane season starts 1 June, till November, 30. This years predictions by NOAA You will have plenty of warning just follow evacuation routes if necessary. DO NOT procrastinate. Caribbean, Texas, Florida and up east coast.
Awesome news, filling up empty seats in private jets now at prices you will like I promise you. socialflights.com
Do you need a reliable local travel agent in New England? Boston Red Sox tickets, tours. Reliable source Milne Travel
Shocker 2012 Disney workers can now grow beards and goatees.
Top ten most dangerous cities in USA. Dailymail
Steven Pearlstein Two can play airline bankruptcy game Washington Post
TSA Agent fired over sex toy dailymail.com
TSA Elderly can keep shoes on, but only in Chicago's O'Hare, Portland Oregon, Denver and Orlando
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American Airlines
15 February AA flight attendants and ground personnel picketing today and airline reports a $1.98 billion dollar loss in 2011
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Delta Airline
Bad reputation for pet transportation ajc.com
Spirit Airlines
Spirit Airlines flight attendants threaten strike.
We will follow along here Spirit Airlines strike
Starting 1, Aug, 2010 Spirit Airlines will charge $45 carry on fee for overhead bags! $30 if you book online. Frequent fliers $20. Under the seat remain free.
17 April 2012 United pilots want to be released from mediation by 1 June if deal not made by then. United ceo Zane Rowe quits to work for Apple.
30 March 2012 US Airways flight attendants reject deal
Florida
Miami airport immigration delays compasscayman.com
NYC
About time. Visa Inc, New York and Los Angeles pilot program in New York uses Visa payWave technology, which is based on a small electronic chip embedded in a mobile phone or payment card that communicates securely with contactless readers at the fare gate and on the bus. corporate.visa.com
NYC, new, group taxi rides NYTimes.com
Life Lessons of a Military Wife Gives interesting travel tips
France
French strikes
French travel 2012
SNCF train strike Ter Paca canceled. Was due to start tonight Sunday, 13 May - Wednesday. You are good do go now along the Cote d'Azur, Marseille route.
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9 May Ajaccio to Toulon car ferry SNCM strike is over, some 20,000 passengers were effected.
Lille Airport
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French air traffic controllers are expecting layoffs, new ATC rules and regulations. Even closure of some local towers. Going to be a tough summer for travel in France.
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French unions say they will stop at nothing regarding new change in aviation rules for industrial action. ie:- no more wildcat strikes, unions will have to give management 48 hours notice of a strike so management can give us, the general public time to plan.(French unions already give plenty of notice of strikes, press doesn't pick it up) Just have a plan B and C. BILL PASSED
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31 March Asthmatics Paris high levels of air pollution 5th day straight, bring your inhaler.
Freaky virtual staff at Orly dailymail
Air France flight status
Transavia Air France subsidiary low cost airline.
Marseille, Airport
Driving into France?
Driving from UK? Law now requires cars entering France to carry selected items dailymail
See where the speed camera's are thelocal
What! Free taxi! Tuk Tuk connexion
New private train Thello sleeper Paris to Venice
Bisonfute for avoiding French traffic jams
French national railway SNCF
If RER A and B are on strike. Three out of four trains will be running. Alternative transport metro, bus and Tram. If going to Orly airport? Then take a bus or RER Cwww.abcdtrains.com
TER and TGV 0 805 90 36 35
Transiliens call toll-free numbers 08 05 70 08 05.
TGV Lyria delays to Switzerland.
www.ratp.fr or by calling 08 00 15 11 11.
Interesting article regarding French taxi top ten tips by Joshua Green
Give us your review. New low cost taxi service easytake
Palace of Versailles 23 room luxury hotel usatoday.
You might want to put Eurolines phone number in your phone. New routes throughout France. connexionfrance.com Now SNCF going into the coach business connexon
Hurricane season June to November.
Antigua
March 12 Redjet suspends service.
15 April Liat workers having to face layoffs. Union objecting. Just keep an eye on this airline. Call to confirm your flight, several times. No strikes planned yet.
Liat Airlines (based in Antigua)
Keeping this info up.
Information for passengers LIAT Call Centre from 7:15am: – from Antigua – 1-268-480-5582; toll free from the rest of the Caribbean – 1-888-844-5428 and from Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands – 1-866-549-5428
Some of you have to get back to mainland U.S for connecting flights if Liat strike.
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Bahamas
Nassau airport
18 April Update Freeport News still going on and yesterday the Nassua Guardian article. Nassau, Bahamas air traffic controllers, customs and immigration ETR
Nasty letter to the editor of thenassauguardian
Local newspapers
Turks and Caicos
Local papers
4 May 2012 Firefighters have now been transferred over from government workers to now working for Airport Authority fptci.com
23 March Government meet with firefighters fptci.com
22 March 2012 Turks and Caicos airport workers back at it again this past week-end tcweeklynews.com
10 March update today from fptci.com Firefighters have been replaced and flights are flying
10 March 2012 Civil servants strike Providenciales International suntci
Baggage handlers issues fptci.com
China
7 December 2011 Nothing to do with travel, but it ain't all rosey over there Washington Post
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Stunning stats out for drunk driving in Xiamen/Amoy SE China, 80% of car accidents due to alcohol weirdasianews.com
4 May Taxi driver strike Lanzhou europe.chinadaily.com.cn
Civil Aviation Administration of China deepens investigation of pilot qualifications atwonline.com
India
Monsoon Season end of May till September. Mumbai airport runway had to close several times last year due to Monsoon caused potholes.
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Air India pilot strike
13 May Air India strike still going on. 76 pilots fired, 20 domestic flights cancelled today.
10 May Some 300-350 pilots call in sick today.
9 May Indian High Court deems strike illegal.
8 May Pilots strike, call them to confirm
Here's what Air India has to say
Whose picking up the slack, air fares more expensive business-standard.com
7 May call Air India Kaamgaar Sanghatan union on strike effecting flights.
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Air India gets a bail out
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Kingfisher
Kingfisher airline may strike May 7, will pay pilots January salary on May 9.
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Going to India in June? Bring cash, National Rural Bank of India, some 17,000 branches will be on strike, may find ATM's empty.
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22 January 2012 Hyderabad Airport Tolls Back deccanchronicle.com
Tirupati airport fireman lands 60 passenger plane gulf-times.com
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Flying in out of India? Don't get caught. In view of ATC Regulations, check in counters will close 40 minutes prior departure for domestic flights and 60 minutes prior departure for International flights at all Indian airports. Kingfisher, Air India all airlines to abide by new rules.
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Indian American's having tough time getting visa to visit the old country allheadllinenews
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India poised to ban BlackBerrys, Skype, Google could be next zdnet.com
Laos
Lets go tubing and drink scorpion snake infused whisky news.com.au
Nepal
18 May Continuous strikes have caused threat to tourism review
Pakistan
PIA 8 planes grounded due to lack of parts brecorder.com
Philippines
15 June 2011 US State Department Issues travel warning avionews.com
7/16/2010 Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA), police telling passengers to watch out for a scam. philstar.com
23-27 January 2012 A U.S. Federal Aviation Administration team will review the Philippine Civil Aviation Authority.stratfor.com
South Korea
Fingerprint Recognition for South Korean Airports
UK England Scotland Wales and Northern Ireland
Union onslaught
Dundee Airport workers voted yes to strike 30 April has now been postponed here
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UK Public sector and civil servants to strike.
Customs, passport control, border and immigration strike over.
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East Midland Trains on Tuesdays and Thursdays in May.
Tuesday 1, 8 and 15 May
Thursday 3, *10 and 17 May
Will you be going to Luton Airport, you will want to take First Capital Connect somehow.
How are you going to get to St Pancras for Eurostar?
Liverpool Airport?
Leeds Bradley International Airport?
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Birmingham airport workers being balloted, no pay raise for three years. Ballots due in mid April.
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19 April UK tanker strike new ballot results due in two weeks.
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Stansted Baggage Handlers strike
Easter week-end cancelled but issues not resolved more
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Opening Ceremony of the London 2012 Olympic
Games Friday 27 July 2012. Heathrow to process 138,000 people daily during Olympic week.
This will give you a hint as to what's to come for public transport during the Olympics dailymail
Are they ready yet iafrica.com
London now has a cable car thisislondon.co.uk
Cyprus
10 May Cyprus taxi drivers will strike Monday 14 May. Larnaca airport maybe blocked Cyprus-Mail
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Ryanair to open new base in Pafos Airport April 2012.
Zenobia dive site off limits CyprusMail
From Viewer Jo:- Only way to get off this island and it's by plane. Once you get to Cyprus, there’s no other way off!
Always' have a secure plan to/from the airports.
National Airline
Cyprus Airways CY Service Centre on 8000 0008. Website not always kept up to date.
Airports
Departures and arrivals Hermes Larnaca and Paphos airports
Wednesday's busiest days of the week at Cypriot airports.
Newspapers, sources we use during industrial actions
Greece
Hellenic Railways (OSE)
Bus lines oasa.gr
Piraeus-Kifissia urban electric railway (ISAP)
Greek newspapers Ekathimerini
Angloinfo Hardcore, love it
A top notch site http://livingingreece.gr/strikes
Twitter carpooling keeptalkinggreece.com
Looking for a taxi or limo? As well as coaches or mini-buses are available upon request. Stargroup's minibuses will be working during strike. Stargroup.org
Keep a beady eye on Athens Int. departures, and Thessaloniki Int. Airport departures give you an idea if they are moving or not.
Reminder:-You may find a taxi hard to find during a general strike. Referred by a fellow traveler Athenstransfer.com
You may find archaeological sites and state museums closed during a general strike. When public transport are striking expect Athens to have extra traffic on roads, traffic jams.
Work of art acropolis-virtualtour.gr
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Greek taxi strike?
Be prepared for delays, leave for airport early. Traffic to Athens airport maybe down to one lane. You may find ports blocked and have to lug your luggage. (Last Greek taxi strike information)
Greek customs border strike? Will effect travel between Albania, Bulgaria and Yugoslavia (Macedonia), Turkey. Trucks with perishables may get a pass and passengers by humanitarian needs only.
Cruise goers, check Cruise Critic very informative site.
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Ireland
22 January You should know if traveling from/to Ireland Fire and Police unions have voted for strike. No date set. Union must give two weeks notice by law.
16 May B.C Public sector workers have voted to strike. No date set yet. Not sure if this includes airport workers
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Canadian Pacific Railway 5,000 union members threaten strike for Tuesday May 22, fingers crossed, talks are still on going.
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3 May Edmonton International airport taxi drivers have voted to strike.Edmontonjournal
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Any individual Canadian coming into the United States by boat or air to pay a $5.50 tax. U.S hopes to garnish $100 million per year.
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25 January 2012 Pearson airport expect delays. 300 screeners to be laid-off. The Star
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Air Canada Strike
Update:-4 May 2012 2 arbitrators are now involved ca.reuters
Update Sunday 15 April flights getting back to normal
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Air Canada pilots, luggage handlers, flight attendants, mechanics and booking agents, all extremely dissatisfied with contracts.
Making this a shaky airline. Think twice about shelling out your hard earned cash to pay for a long-haul with this company.
13 April Week-end and industrial action hand in hand with Air Canada. Today 10 flights cancelled, pilots have a sick-out.
Here's what Air Canada has to say;-
Due to illegal job action by some Air Canada pilots, Air Canada is experiencing delays and some cancellations of flights today. Air Canada is making every effort to re-accommodate affected customers on alternate flights.
Customers are requested to check the status of their flight at aircanada.com before leaving for the airport.
In order to facilitate changes to travel plans, Air Canada has revised its ticketing policy for customers booked on flights today and tomorrow. Those customers wishing to make alternate travel arrangements can do so without penalty, space permitting, by using Air Canada's self service rebooking tool at aircanada.com, on their mobile device, or by contacting Air Canada Reservations toll free in Canada and the U.S. at 888-247-2262; TTY: 1-800-361-8071 or Air Canada Reservations worldwide. Due to increased call centre volume, wait times will be longer than usual.
We apologize to customers affected and thank them for their patience.
Updates will be made available on aircanada.com.
You do have other choices. Just not Air France/Iberia.
Friday, 23 March 2012 Air Canada baggage handlers went on strike today causing airline to cancel flights. Airports effected are Toronto, Montreal Trudeau, and Toronto Pearson (passengers sitting on runway for an hr.)
Air Canada employees are banned from striking a rule the government made last week. Also see article edmontonjournal.com
Plus according to Reuters Air Canada was going to bring in the police if needed
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Last time Air Canada had a strike viarail sold out and later added trains.
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Air Canada plans new low cost airline. This will be airlines third attempt. Not going to sit well with Air Canada pilots.
South America
Departing from South America? Flying to Spain?
Iberia cancellations/delays and Madrid airport, Sao Paulo, Bogata, Buenos Aires etc.
Argentina
16 May Subway strike starts at noon today.
Bolivia
14 May 2012 AeroSur airline fighting for survival don't get caught ajc.com
8 May La Paz buses and taxi block roads iol.co.za
Sex workers on strike, not getting check ups aljazeera
Brazil
Brazilian newspapers
Brazil has World Cup 2014 and Olympics 2016, airports sub-standard and the clocks a ticking. Government owned Infraero owns 67 airports. New President Rousseff will privatize new terminals in Sao Paulo. Brazilian unions will have a lot to digest this year.
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Check out this Azul Airlines free shuttle to airport, run by x CEO for Jet Blue money.cc.com Brazil's TAM and Chili's LAN are to merge, making it largest carrier in South America. LATAM Airlines
Panama Canal
13 April Friday Thousands of workers down tools, canal closed. Issue over death of a worker. No date given when strike will be over.
Peru
See Spain, more strikes from Iberia Airlines pilots, general strike and Madrid Airport.
Canada
Australia
Qantas
10 May Qantas long haul pilots loose The Australian
5 March Pilots back in the news today, in court, Long-haul pilots state they will not be striking in the future.
Dec. 2011 Qantas employee issues now in arbitration, which will keep all parties busy for at least six months. Hundreds of staff to be let go. ETR history
New Zealand
2012 Air New Zealand named airline of the year by Air Transport World
23 March 2012 New Zealand gets some new driving rules thestar
23 March Port strike still going on.
3 March 2012 Demonstrations at New Zealand ports this week-end New Zealand Radio
Transportation Strikes at Easy Travel Report.com Travel Guide
European Travel
Kenya
Nairobi hotels, U.S issues warnings regarding possible bomb threats to hotels not safe for tourists
Kenyan newspapers
Kenyan border to Somalia closed.
Brits told to stay away from Kenyan coastline dailylmail
Libya
31 January Libyan airports open for business Benina, Tripoli, Misurata, Sebha, Mitiga.
Namibia
Namibian Airport strike.
Namibian airport strike has been postponed till 21 May.
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Are you going to take a train in Namibia? Workers have been ordered back to work. namibian.com.na
Nigeria
Are you going to Nigeria? Best make sure your shots are all up to date. Diseases expected to sky rocket due to doctors strike, children's inoculations were delayed.
22 January Britons warned about areas in Nigeria
8 January Christians told to defend themselves
Somalia (famine)
15 May Pirate news:-EU using helicopters to bomb pirate boats deccanherald.com
3 November 2011 Kenyans getting ready to bomb Somalia.
Pirates to left of me..terrorists to right thesun.co.uk
Somalia's al-Shabab bans mixed-sex handshakes bbc.co.uk
South Africa
Strike season July and August
7 March Cosatu strike Public transport running late, passengers getting calls from airlines jacarandafm.com
7 March 2012 Protests planned are unclear.
Swaziland
When SA truckers strike, Swaziland will feel it's effect quickly. Best stock up with petrol while you can.
Tunisia
I put temporarily in Middle East (shame on me)
Uganda
Taxi thieves have a new tactic allafrica
Zimbabwe
Deal by Hainan Airlines fails to take over Air Zimbabwe.
Air Zimbabwe crews better not be wearing second hand nickers dailymail
Air Zimbabwe don't bother.
Amen
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Israel
28 February Israeli airlines can legally strike
March 13 on.
27 February Israeli airlines under strike threat El Al, Arkia and Israir JPost
12 February Strike over
and will continue on Friday. Ben Gurion airport is not involved anymore.
3 February Announced today the confirmation of Israeli industrial action involving 400,000 Histadrut union workers. Strike that is to take place next Wednesday 8 February. Judge stated strike at Ben Gurion International is to end by noon and be a total of six hours long. Judge orders all parties to meet up again.
Union histadrut.org.il
Jordon
15 April Jordonian electric company albawaba.com
Kuwait
30 March 2012 Kuwaiti employees rake in a nice pay raise brecorder.com
20 March 2012 Kuwait Airway's strike over and immigration and customs
19 March More KA flights canceled, fruit and vegetable prices climb
18 March Kuwait Airways planes are still grounded today. Supermarket shelves empty due to the customs strike.Trucks stuck at borders abcnews.go.com
15 March Kuwait Airways workers will strike starting tomorrow Friday at 8 PM, till further notice. Passengers will be put on competing airlines, refunds or reschedule flights.
Port strike not effecting oil tankers.
13 March Flying into Kuwait airport may be a problem today as customs agents are on strike causing delays at airports, ports and borders.
Lebanon
Union GLC disappointed in turn out dailystar
3 May General strike GLC union wants a cap on petrol prices and elimination of taxes. .dailystar.com
26 April Public transport strike dailystar
Syria
5 December 2011 Do not take your iphone into Syria, it will be confiscated. iphones now banned. Owning as well as importing iPhones is banned and the penalty is confiscation and prosecution. Authorities will think you are a spy. Syrian jail cell not so good.
Tunisia
Customs strike being planned for May 9 Tunisialive
Yemen
1 May Yemeni port strike reuters
8 March Strikes in Yemen YemenTimes
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