{"id":44928,"date":"2026-01-07T16:19:41","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T15:19:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/polinex.cluster021.hosting.ovh.net\/index.php\/2026\/01\/07\/italy-faces-airport-and-airline-strikes-on-9-january\/"},"modified":"2026-01-07T16:19:41","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T15:19:41","slug":"italy-faces-airport-and-airline-strikes-on-9-january","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/polinex.cluster021.hosting.ovh.net\/index.php\/2026\/01\/07\/italy-faces-airport-and-airline-strikes-on-9-january\/","title":{"rendered":"Italy faces airport and airline strikes on 9 January"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<br \/><\/p>\n<h2><strong>Disruption expected at airports in Italy on Friday due to strike action involving ground staff as well as easyJet and Vueling cabin crews<\/strong>.<\/h2>\n<p>Passengers travelling through airports in\u00a0Italy on\u00a0Friday 9 January\u00a0could face disruption due to several strikes affecting the air travel sector.<\/p>\n<p>Airport ground staff at Milan&#8217;s Linate and Malpensa airports have called a 24-hour strike on Friday, with a separate nationwide strike by airport staff scheduled from 13.00 to 17.00.<\/p>\n<p>The strike at the Milan airports involves staff from the Airport Handling and Swissport Italia companies, while the national strike involves employees of the airport handling services provider Assohandlers.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, Italy-based pilots and cabin crew employed by British low-cost airline\u00a0<strong>easyJet<\/strong>\u00a0are to stage a 24-hour strike the same day, with staff at Spanish budget carrier\u00a0<strong>Vueling<\/strong>\u00a0set to strike from 10.00 to 18.00.<\/p>\n<p>Travellers who are scheduled to fly with either airline through Italian airports on Friday are advised to check their flight details in advance and arrive at the airport early.<\/p>\n<p><em>We update our news of public transport strikes in Italy regularly. For official information see the\u00a0transport ministry website.\u00a0Photo credit:\u00a0Canary4stock \/ Shutterstock.com.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Disruption expected at airports in Italy on Friday due to strike action involving ground staff as well as easyJet and Vueling cabin crews. Passengers travelling through airports in\u00a0Italy on\u00a0Friday 9 January\u00a0could face disruption due to several strikes affecting the air travel sector. Airport ground staff at Milan&#8217;s Linate and Malpensa airports have called a 24-hour<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":44929,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[2801,7126,5541,2547,13506,3635],"class_list":["post-44928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-eventi","tag-airline","tag-airport","tag-faces","tag-italy","tag-january","tag-strikes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/polinex.cluster021.hosting.ovh.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44928","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/polinex.cluster021.hosting.ovh.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/polinex.cluster021.hosting.ovh.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/polinex.cluster021.hosting.ovh.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/polinex.cluster021.hosting.ovh.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44928"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/polinex.cluster021.hosting.ovh.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44928\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/polinex.cluster021.hosting.ovh.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/polinex.cluster021.hosting.ovh.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/polinex.cluster021.hosting.ovh.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/polinex.cluster021.hosting.ovh.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}