Poland’s air traffic control spat threatens 600 flights

Bloomberg

Poland’s simmering industrial dispute over working conditions for air traffic control staff threatens to disrupt more than 600 flights a day if a deal can’t be reached, Europe’s airspace-management body warned.
Capacity for services to Warsaw could be cut to just 170 a day if the situation worsens, leaving around 340 at risk of cancellation, while 300 of 700 daily overflights via Polish skies would need to be rerouted, Eurocontrol said.
The Brussels-based agency said in a statement it’s examining how to minimise the impact of walkouts but that options have been limited by “the impact of the war in Ukraine on the airspace availability.”
The drastic curbs on flights could be implemented by Poland’s Civil Aviation Authority from May 1 as disruption reaches critical levels, Eurocontrol said.
The European Commission is closely monitoring the dispute.