Buenos Aires, Argentina: Strike at Aeroparque Airport complicates flights

Flights at the Aeroparque Airport have been affected since yesterday by an unofficial air controllers’ strike. The National Administration of Civil Aviation (ANAC) announced that 20 % of today’s flights at Aeroparque need to be re-scheduled. There have been several cancellations and delays, and some flights have been re-directed to Ezeiza Airport. The strike, while not an official measure approved by the air controllers’ union, was called for by a group of these workers as an act of solidarity with employees who were fired from the control towers at Aeroparque and at the Taravella Airport in Cordoba, Argentina. Read article