88 flights into or out of Charleroi (sometimes referred to as Brussels South) Airport today and on Tuesday have been cancelled due to a 48-hour strike by the airline’s Belgian pilots. The announcement that just over a quarter of the 340 Ryanair flights that were scheduled to take off from or land at Charleroi will be cancelled was first published on the airline’s website on Thursday afternoon.
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88 Ryanair flights will be cancelled on today and on Tuesday
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Passengers with tickets for one of the strike-bound flights are requested not to go to the airport. Ryanair’s Belgian pilots have already taken strike action twice this summer. They walked out on the weekends of 15 and 16 and 29 and 30 July. This week’s strike is the first the time that the pilots have taken strike action on weekdays.
The pilots are unhappy with changes Ryanair intends to make to their rosters. The pilots are also demanding that Ryanair restore their salaries to pre-pandemic levels. In 2020 the pilots took a 20% pay cut to help Ryanair through the crisis.