Wednesday’s air traffic control strike will go ahead as planned between 1pm and 5pm, the airport operators have been officially told.
A total of 35 flights and 5,000 passengers will be affected.
Larnaca will see 23 flights – 12 departures and 11 arrivals – hit, while Paphos will have five departures and seven arrivals halted, a total of 12
After air traffic controllers failed to turn up for talks at the Commerce and Industry Ministry in an effort to avert Wednesday’s four-hour strike, minister Efthymios Flourentzos earlier called for arbitration.
He has directed his call to the Finance Ministry, which will now approach the Labour Ministry, for an arbitration procedure to go ahead.
Meanwhile, the Cyprus Chamber of Commerce has made a last-ditch plea to air traffic controllers to call off their strikey.
They say that this is will cause massive damage to the country’s economy if it and another planned strike go ahead.
Wednesday is the busiest day of the week for the island’s airports.
The Chamber is also calling on the government to regulate strike action in essential services to limit the damage caused
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