Originally Posted by
RCAQ01
In today's world of data analytics, it would have been easier to address this E-Mail to those pax/those mail address owners who actually have taken a flight during a specific time period.
Indeed, but then people who didn't get it and who see mention of it in fora like this would then complain
Originally Posted by
N1120A
Anyone else get this today? The A3 CEO seemed to lay blame heavily of Hellenic ATC for certain recent delays of A3 flights. Anyone know the background of this?
It's clearly a circular, so it's a safe bet that it wasn't a personal missive for your eyes only
In fact, it's a safe bet that any customers who have provided A3 with their email address and consent to receive unsolicited (marketing) emails would have received it.
And the "background" of this is that air traffic delays cause disruption and congestion all over Europe, particularly in the peak season.
https://www.independent.co.uk/travel...-a8916791.html
https://www.independent.ie/business/...-37934906.html
Europe airlines brace for another summer of air traffic delays
BRUSSELS, July 10 (Reuters) - European air passengers face another torrid summer of air traffic delays due to a combination of staff shortages, regulatory logjams and perennial strikes, airlines warned on Wednesday.
The head of British Airways owner IAG, Willie Walsh, said delays were increasing carbon emissions, while Ryanair chief executive Michael O’Leary bemoaned what he called the “lamentable failure of (controllers) to turn up to work”.
Airline bosses were speaking at a briefing of lobby group A4E (Airlines for Europe), which called on the incoming European Commission to speed up the delayed Single European Sky project, intended to remove airspace borders and allow shorter routings.
“Air traffic management is still dysfunctional in the EU,” A4E managing director Thomas Reynaert said.
Between January and June 2019 the number of minutes of flying delays were up 114% compared to 2017, the group said in a statement.
Add to this the latest shenanigans reported above in post 6, and you can see why European airlines tear their hair out in frustration at the patchwork of understaffed and badly-managed air traffic control fiefdoms that hamper travel across Europe.
Here's Eurocontrol's most recent tweet, from 2 hours ago: delays in DUB/LIS/OPO due to weather, but all other issues are operational; staffing issues are impacting several Greek airports, as well as the Karlsruhe and Austria/Hungary/Croatia sectors