"Situation in Italy"? March 20 Travel Advisory
Mar 18, 2015, 2:28 pm
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"Situation in Italy"? March 20 Travel Advisory
Anyone know what this travel advisory is for?
Cities Affected
Bologna, Italy ; Milan, Italy (Malpensa Airport) ; Naples, Italy ; Pisa, Italy ; Rome, Italy ; Venice, Italy
Revised Ticket Policy
Due to the situation in Italy, US Airways and Iberia offer the following flexibility options to ticketed customers whose travel may be impacted by this event
Bologna, Italy ; Milan, Italy (Malpensa Airport) ; Naples, Italy ; Pisa, Italy ; Rome, Italy ; Venice, Italy
Revised Ticket Policy
Due to the situation in Italy, US Airways and Iberia offer the following flexibility options to ticketed customers whose travel may be impacted by this event
Mar 18, 2015, 2:31 pm
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Anyone know what this travel advisory is for?
Mar 18, 2015, 2:46 pm
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Anyone know what this travel advisory is for?
It's been corrected.....great.
Last edited by Randyk47; Mar 18, 2015 at 3:44 pm
Mar 18, 2015, 9:13 pm
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It looks like it's a strike of airport staff in general.
Mar 18, 2015, 11:00 pm
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Italy and strikes, like horse and carriage. (OTOH, Lufthansa is on strike today through Friday, their thirteenth strike - Vereinigung Cockpit union. 
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Mar 19, 2015, 5:11 am
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My nemesis in Italy is the train system. Thirty years ago I was traveling by train from Florence to Vicenza and they went on strike about half way through the trip stranding us for a few hours. Fast forward to two years ago and I'm traveling from Florence to Livorno, first time on an Italian train since the strike plagued one 30 years earlier, and was assured that "wildcat" strikes were rare and most strikes were announced and published. Guess what? They went on strike. Will say we were luckier this time and were on the last train to make the full trip that day.
Mar 23, 2015, 1:02 pm
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France's turn
Cities Affected
Lyon, France ; Marseille, France ; Nice, France ; Paris, France (Charles de Gaulle) ; Toulouse, France
Date Range
3/25/2015 1:00 PM ET through 3/27/2015 11:59 PM ET
Revised Ticket Policy
Due to the situation in France, US Airways and Iberia offer the following flexibility options to ticketed customers whose travel may be impacted by this event. Customers ticketed to travel on AA, US, IB, US*/AA or US*/IB flights departing from the airports listed below may change flights as shown below.
Lyon, France ; Marseille, France ; Nice, France ; Paris, France (Charles de Gaulle) ; Toulouse, France
Date Range
3/25/2015 1:00 PM ET through 3/27/2015 11:59 PM ET
Revised Ticket Policy
Due to the situation in France, US Airways and Iberia offer the following flexibility options to ticketed customers whose travel may be impacted by this event. Customers ticketed to travel on AA, US, IB, US*/AA or US*/IB flights departing from the airports listed below may change flights as shown below.
Mar 31, 2015, 7:18 pm
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Argentina's turn. 
At least now it's labelled ATC Strike
Argentina ATC Strike
Due to the situation in Argentina, US Airways is offering the following flexibility options to ticketed customers whose travel may be impacted by this event. Customers ticketed to travel on US or US*/AA flights departing from the airports listed below may change flights as shown below.
If you are traveling to/through/from:
· Buenos Aires, Argentina (EZE)
On the following dates: March 31, 2015
And your ticket was issued no later than: March 31, 2015
Due to the situation in Argentina, US Airways is offering the following flexibility options to ticketed customers whose travel may be impacted by this event. Customers ticketed to travel on US or US*/AA flights departing from the airports listed below may change flights as shown below.
If you are traveling to/through/from:
· Buenos Aires, Argentina (EZE)
On the following dates: March 31, 2015
And your ticket was issued no later than: March 31, 2015
Apr 1, 2015, 4:23 am
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The Italian minister of transport even has a webpage to track all strikes: http://scioperi.mit.gov.it/mit2/public/scioperi
It's a terrible site, full of meaningless acronyms, but through Google Translate you can get a sense if there's an airline, train or local transports strike -- enough so you can do research or ask someone in the know to make sense of the alphabet soup.
It's a terrible site, full of meaningless acronyms, but through Google Translate you can get a sense if there's an airline, train or local transports strike -- enough so you can do research or ask someone in the know to make sense of the alphabet soup.