Many Travellers passing through Keflavík International Airport have been experiencing significant delays this weekend. The delays continued this morning and when only three flights out of the 27 scheduled to depart between 6:00 AM and 9:00 AM were able to take off on time. Several arrivals were also delayed. Most of the delayed flights were delayed one hour, but many are facing even greater delays.
Read more: Attention: Passengers departing from Keflavík in the next 3 days must arrive 3 hours before flight
The action also delayed flights which were supposed to land this morning. No flight which was scheduled to arrive between 4:40 and 7 is on time. Arrivals from the US are at least half an hour late, some more than an hour, the local newspaper Morgunblaðið reports.
This morning‘s delays are only the latest in a series of serious delays at Keflavík. A two hour delay in traffic caused significant disruption at the terminal on Saturday afternoon, the Icelandic National Broadcasting Service reports, as 25 planes landed in the span of just two hours, between 15:15 and 17:15
Air traffic controllers’ overtime ban: No solution in sight
The delays are caused by an overtime ban by air traffic controllers who have been without a labour contract since February. The air traffic controllers are demanding a new contract and significant wage increases, and to press their demands they have been on an overtime ban since April 6. The overtime ban means that if air traffic controllers who are on duty call in sick there is nobody to assume their duties, resulting in the service at Keflavík International Airport being drastically reduced. Only emergency and ambulance flights are permitted to land or depart while the action is underway.
ISAVIA, which manages the airport, announced yesterday when it had become clear that two air traffic controllers who were supposed to be on duty last night had called in sick. As a result all flights scheduled to depart or land between two and seven this morning were pushed back, creating significant delays.
According to the local newspaper Fréttablaðið negotiations between the air traffic controllers and ISAVIA have been unsuccessful. A meeting on Friday ended without any solution in sight.
Many Travellers passing through Keflavík International Airport have been experiencing significant delays this weekend. The delays continued this morning and when only three flights out of the 27 scheduled to depart between 6:00 AM and 9:00 AM were able to take off on time. Several arrivals were also delayed. Most of the delayed flights were delayed one hour, but many are facing even greater delays.
Read more: Attention: Passengers departing from Keflavík in the next 3 days must arrive 3 hours before flight
The action also delayed flights which were supposed to land this morning. No flight which was scheduled to arrive between 4:40 and 7 is on time. Arrivals from the US are at least half an hour late, some more than an hour, the local newspaper Morgunblaðið reports.
This morning‘s delays are only the latest in a series of serious delays at Keflavík. A two hour delay in traffic caused significant disruption at the terminal on Saturday afternoon, the Icelandic National Broadcasting Service reports, as 25 planes landed in the span of just two hours, between 15:15 and 17:15
Air traffic controllers’ overtime ban: No solution in sight
The delays are caused by an overtime ban by air traffic controllers who have been without a labour contract since February. The air traffic controllers are demanding a new contract and significant wage increases, and to press their demands they have been on an overtime ban since April 6. The overtime ban means that if air traffic controllers who are on duty call in sick there is nobody to assume their duties, resulting in the service at Keflavík International Airport being drastically reduced. Only emergency and ambulance flights are permitted to land or depart while the action is underway.
ISAVIA, which manages the airport, announced yesterday when it had become clear that two air traffic controllers who were supposed to be on duty last night had called in sick. As a result all flights scheduled to depart or land between two and seven this morning were pushed back, creating significant delays.
According to the local newspaper Fréttablaðið negotiations between the air traffic controllers and ISAVIA have been unsuccessful. A meeting on Friday ended without any solution in sight.
