The Finnish aviation labour union, IAU, has informed Finnair of a support strike for Monday November 25, related to the ongoing labour dispute at Posti, the Finnish postal service. Finnair is not a party in the dispute, but the planned support strike would have major impacts on Finnair flights operations. The strike will affect several critical services at Helsinki Airport, including ground services such as loading and unloading of aircraft, fueling and push-back of aircraft, as well as Finnair customer services at Helsinki Airport, catering of Finnair flights and Finnair maintenance operations.
As the parties have not reached an agreement, Finnair now has to cancel flights from Monday. Finnair has already cancelled 26 flights from Sunday evening November 24 and from Monday morning November 25, and will now cancel approximately 250 more flights from Monday, November 25.
Finnair had 377 flights in its traffic program for Monday, and the company expects to be able operate approximately 120 of them.
