No air traffic at Belgian airports for up to 7 hours due to strike at Skeyes: 15 flights canceled at Charleroi, Brussels Airport reports delays | News

Today there will be no air traffic at Belgian airports until 7 a.m. due to a strike action by air traffic controller Skeyes. The organization reports this in a press release. There is dissatisfaction about the agreements regarding the digital control center in Namur.

Fifteen flights were canceled at the airport on Tuesday morning Charleroi This can be read on the Walloon airport website on Tuesday morning. All flights before 8am have either been canceled or delayed. In addition to the fifteen cancellations, thirteen flights were also delayed at just after 6 am.

At the airport of Zaventem no passenger flights will be canceled due to the strike action. Quentin Mertens, spokesperson for the airport, confirmed this to Belga on the night from Monday to Tuesday.

According to Mertens, there will be delays. About 25 flights will depart later than planned and two arriving flights will be diverted to other airports early in the morning. It is still unclear how serious the delays will be. “Cargo flights will also experience an impact, although it is difficult to put a concrete number on that,” says Mertens.

Brussels Airport promises to keep its partners and passengers as informed as possible about the consequences of the strike action.

Also at the airport Shutter there will be disruption, spokesperson Christian Delcourt confirms to Belga. About twenty flights there will be affected by the action, although it is still unclear whether this concerns only delays or also cancellations.

The action follows negotiations on an agreement with the unions on the digital control center in Namur. This center will become operational in the course of next year and will be responsible for managing the traffic of aircraft taking off and landing, as well as all ground movements, in Charleroi and Liège.

Earlier in the day, management and the unions had discussed the transition measures, working conditions and support measures. The preliminary agreement has already been accepted by the largest trade union organization, which represents the majority of air traffic controllers.