Financial Times

SriLankan flights grounded as cabin crew strike

The cabin crew of SriLankan Airlines staged a sudden strike on Friday disrupting the national carrier's incoming and outgoing flights.

Cabin crew labour union is demanding to renegotiate the collective agreement with the airline and have also made complaints against the airline's head of service delivery.

Union leaders were locked in talks with the airline's management as we went to press on Friday.

An airline spokesperson said the strike was a token one between 12 noon and 12 midnight and that four incoming flights from Europe and four departures from Colombo were affected, along with some flights on other routes.

The aircraft were unable to take off and passengers who had booked in were accommodated in hotels.

Civil Aviation Authority officials said that according to safety rules flights cannot depart unless they have the minimum number of cabin crew according to the number of seats in the aircraft.

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