Airlines have had to adapt their traffic to the reduction in available staff among baggage handlers and security agents, she said.
Brussels Airlines indicated on Saturday that it was forced to preventively cancel “50% of (its) European flights” in order to be able to maintain long-haul flights.
In Charleroi, the country’s second airport and Ryanair’s first hub on the European continent, “all departing flights are canceled” from 12:00 p.m. (11:00 a.m. GMT), the operator announced in the morning.
“The airport is facing an unforeseen significant shortage of agents from the external security provider and security can no longer be ensured,” he underlined.
There will be no departures until the end of the day but arrivals are planned as normal, the same source said.
Belgium’s three major unions — FGTB (socialist), CSC (Christian) and CGSLB (liberal) — called for a day of action to denounce the government coalition’s projects still under negotiation at the federal level, which is according to them determined to “tackle” pensions.
Several thousand people demonstrated in the morning in Brussels.
-“No one disputes it in the five parties (which have been negotiating for seven months, editor’s note). There are at least three billion savings planned on pensions,” the general secretary of the CSC, Marie, told RTBF radio. -Hélène Ska.
“This concerns in particular railway workers and a certain number of categories of the public service who today have the possibility of retiring a little earlier,” she added.
Railway workers today have the possibility of retiring at 55, after 30 years of career, compared to 66 years for employees in the private sector.
On the Belgian railway network (SNCB), only one in three trains linking large cities was in circulation, while urban or interurban transport in the regions of Brussels and Wallonia (French-speaking south) was also very disrupted.
The teaching world is also mobilized, particularly in Flanders (Dutch-speaking north) because the federated entities which have jurisdiction over education also plan to reduce the amount of pensions, according to the unions.
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