Following a dispute over working conditions and pay, airline, airport and air traffic control staff staged a 24 hour walkout that caused a half of the flights to and from Italy to cancel. Milan and Rome airports are the worst affected by the strike action. Besides the working conditions and pay dispute the strike is also partly a protest against failure to decide on the future of Alitalia which has been in administration for over two years as successive governments struggle to agree on a buyer. Alitalia is facing another, smaller, strike in June 2019.
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