Flights to and from France not expected to be affected by Gatwick Easter strike
Travellers are still advised to check their flight details this weekend
The strike will mainly impact services to northern Europe and Portugal
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Hundreds of baggage handlers, check-in staff and flight dispatchers at London Gatwick airport are set to stage a strike from today (April 18) to Tuesday (April 22) morning.
The action is expected to impact 50 flights a day but is limited to workers handling services under the Norwegian, Delta, TAP Portugal and Air Peace airlines, none of which provide routes to France.
Knock-on disruption may affect other routes, but the airport says disruptions will be minimal overall.
The striking staff, who work under the Red Handling company, are protesting over unreceived pay and pensions, as well as poor working conditions and failure to respect health and safety-mandated breaks for employees.
As of Friday morning, the airport’s live departure board is showing little impact, with airlines flying to France unaffected.
“It's a very small number of airlines who don't operate a huge number of flights, so we're not talking about a big-scale impact," said haid of passenger operations at the airport Nick Williams to the BBC.
"We're working really closely with those airlines to try and mitigate that impact and hope that as many of those flights operate as close to schedule as possible,” he added.
Passengers are still being advised to check their flight details this weekend.
Connexion readers are more likely to be impacted by a major railway strike in May, with two major unions supporting various walkouts on the network between May 5 and 11.
