Employees of the Aviapartner baggage handler stopped work without warning on Saturday morning at Brussels airport. As a result, several flights depart with delays of up to an hour and a half.
Aviapartner is responsible for 40% of baggage handling at the airport, including TUI, KLM and British Airways flights. According to the ACT Transcom union, all fifty morning shift employees joined the strike. In this way, among other things, they want to denounce the high workload. According to the union, this is already high, while the holiday season has yet to start.
Without luggage
Around 48,000 passengers are expected at Brussels airport on Saturday, around 60,000 on Sunday. According to an airport spokesman, some flights departed without luggage. He explains that in this case the luggage will be deposited at the airport before the luggage is taken to the holiday destination.
Three flights arriving from Brussels are scheduled for Saturday at Schiphol. Of these, one KLM flight was cancelled. There are four flights to Brussels for flights departing from Schiphol. Two of these have been cancelled, by KLM and Corendon Airlines. It is unclear whether the cancellations are directly linked to the strike in Brussels.
Source: BNR
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