Reminder:
Ferries and ships will remain docked at the Greek ports
Disruptions in land transport
Air Traffic Controllers announced that they will participate in the 24-hour strike.
NOTE: usually the Greek authorities take cases of strikes by the Air Traffic controllers to courts to declare them as illegal 1 or 2 days before the strike. If you plan to travel by air on April 9 contact your airlines.
Thanks, JoLui. I guess you had predicted this in my earlier post! We will call the airlines that we switched to from ferry.
My flight from Montreal is scheduled to arrive in Athens the morning of April 9th. I've been calling Air Canada twice a day asking about contingency plans, and all their representatives tell me is "We have nothing in our system about a strike in Greece, if there will be a strike you'll get an email from us." I've offered to send them the Greek air traffic controllers press release, and news reports, but they don't want to hear about it.
Hopefully other carriers are being more responsible.
Good luck to anyone traveling that day.
As I said, most of the time, the air traffic controllers' strike is declared illegal and therefore canceled just before the strike date. But there is no guarantee regarding the strike on April 9th (the last strike on March 28th took place as planned, and Aegean, the Greek airline, had warned passengers of the cancellation of flights several days before the strike).
Check the Greek English-language press for update.
Some links:
https://www.tovima.com/society/air-traffic-controllers-to-join-april-9-strike-grounding-flights/
