Tag: Air traffic control
Finnair cancels "The greater part" from flights 1.–2. February
Since the airline typically flies about 280 flights per day, the cancellations affect most of its 1st-2nd flights. February flights. The cancellations will be implemented into the flight system one by one starting this morning, and all affected passengers will automatically be offered alternative routes. Cancellations and passenger rerouting are expected to take approximately two…
They want a 25% pay rise
Air traffic controllers are demanding a 25% pay increase during salary negotiations with Isavia. This is what Morgunblaðið sources say. The total salary of air traffic controllers last year, according to Statistics Iceland, was on average 1,584,000. ISK per month, of which the basic salary was PLN 915,000, while the total remuneration was PLN 1,584,000.…
Thousands of grounded passengers
The flights of thousands of travelers were disrupted due to a temporary strike by air traffic controllers that began at 4 a.m. yesterday and lasted until 10 a.m. Negotiations between the Icelandic Air Traffic Controllers Association (FÍF) and Isavia at the state mediation office ended at nine o'clock yesterday evening and it was agreed that…
Strike at a 'very bad time'
Play and Icelandair airlines are preparing their response to the planned strike of air traffic controllers, which will take place on Tuesday and Thursday morning next week. The strike will have a major impact on the companies' operations, as flying without active air traffic control is not possible. “First of all, we respect the wage…
The helicopter crash in Gothenburg's archipelago
18 November 2003, 19-year-old Jacob De Vries wakes up in the water. His last memory is sitting in the helicopter on his way out to an exercise. Now the surface of the water is covered with jet fuel and around him are wreckage from the helicopter he was just in. 150 meters away is the…
Norwegian considers leaving CPH Airport as mass delays continue
A tough summer on the horizonThe airline called on the Danish government to step in and help resolve the conflict involving the air traffic controllers. Danish Industry (DI) has called on the Minister of Transport to step in prevent a “nightmare summer” scenario. So far, however, the politicians have refused to interfere. The conflict started…
Massive delays at Copenhagen Airport due to lack of air traffic controllers
Roots in the pandemicThe airport is unsure when the situation will return to normal, and it expects delays to continue throughout this week. The problem has arisen because air traffic controllers have refused to take extra shifts after months of overtime due to staff shortages. This has thrown state-owned Naviair and the air traffic controller…
Smartwatch users report GPS interference in Finland
Polar, a Finnish manufacturer of sports training equipment, has received numerous reports of GPS problems from users of its smart watches. Last week a smart watch user Teija Larikka went skiing near his home in Kajaani in eastern Finland, but his Polar smartwatch said he had skied hundreds of kilometers further east, near Lake Laatokaj…
Disruptions to GPS services affect air traffic in Central and Eastern Finland
“Exact number [of abnormal event reports] is unknown. It can be well over 10 ” Jari PöntinenDirector of Traficom, comments To YLE on Tuesday. Traficom has asked Fintraffic’s air navigation services to warn airlines of disruptions to alert airlines. It assured in a press release that flying is still safe because airlines have policies in…
Finnair suspends flights over Ukrainian airspace
Finland’s national airline Finnair has announced that it has suspended flights over Ukrainian airspace against Russia’s military attack on Ukraine on Thursday morning. The company does not currently fly directly to Ukraine, but Finnair flies over the western part of the country on three routes – Gazipasa in Turkey, Tel Aviv in Israel and Dubai…
Net-zero flights are not just fantasy
Photo: Pixabay / Lars_Nissen As international air travel recovers from COVID-19 restrictions, are greenhouse gas emissions from aviation expected to increase dramatically? and with it, review of the industry’s environmental credentials. Aviation emissions have almost doubled since 2000 and reached one billion tonnes in 2018. Climate Action Tracker considers the industry’s climate performance to be…
Indonesian passenger plane disappeared
A passenger plane from the Indonesian company Sriwijaya Air, which is said to be a Boeing 737, has lost contact with the air traffic control shortly after take-off from the capital Jakarta. The flight tracking site Flightradar24 states that the plane lost 3,000 meters in altitude in less than a minute. Ekot’s Asia correspondent Peder…
Promille of 2.62 triggers conditional imprisonment for air traffic controller
The man had a blood alcohol level of 2.62 during service on April 2 at the air station at Vojens. The 60-year-old air traffic controller admitted that before and during service he had drunk three bottles of Masterbrew beer with a strength of 10.5 percent. During the service, he communicated with two F-16 pilots. They…