Greece’s Olympics Airlines cancels more flights as pilots’ action continues
ATHENS, Greece: Greece’s Olympic Airlines says it is canceling more flights and rescheduling others because of a work-to-rule slowdown by a pilots’ union.
The pilots are refusing any work beyond that strictly required by their contracts, and that has forced dozens of flight cancelations over the past 10 days.
On Saturday, the majority state-owned airline announced it will cancel 14 domestic flights on Sunday and 25 on Monday. Most of them are flights to Aegean Sea islands.
Olympic Airlines also says a Sunday international flight from Thessaloniki to Istanbul and back will be canceled, and other flights will be rescheduled.
The pilots began the job action to protest the airline’s demand that they fly more flights each week than now required by their contracts.