Italy - National Strike on December 2nd

After months riddled with nation-wide demonstrations

that never happened.

it isn’t yet clear if essential services will be guaranteed

The lists of national and local trains guaranteed to run during strikes on working days are available on trenitalia.com . Nobody doubts those trains will run. As always local means of transport inside cities will run before 9 AM and after 5 PM, with local differences depending on each city customs.

As always cabbies won't join the strike. Same for most of the private buses to/from main airports and for many high speed trains' workers.

If I were you, I'd find a better newsletter or, at least, a second source.

As always cabbies won't join the strike.

Dario, thanks for mentioning this. I'm landing in Rome on Dec. 2nd and was planning to take a taxi from FCO to my hotel, so this is a relief.

Maybe my relief was premature?!

https://www.avionews.it/en/item/1248091-aircraft-transport-and-more-italian-strike-next-december-2.html

The aviation and maritime sectors are closed for 24 hours from 11:59 on December 1 to the same time on December 2nd.

Just bumping this up. hoping someone has some info. for roubrat on whether flights might be impacted by the strike.

Thanks, Carrie. All the info. I'm finding online is vague.

I don’t see much additional info either…it’s probably complicated and (maybe completely unnecessary) but, would it be wise consider pre-booking a limo service from the airport to the city center for that day in case there is a lot of competition for available taxis?

We got caught up in a strike back in October. Went to check in to our flight only to find that it was canceled the following morning from Rome to Paris. It was a nightmare trying to rebook as everything the following day was full. We ended up leaving Rome that night via train to Milan - arriving at 11 pm, just so we could catch the next morning's train to Paris. Trains were filling up, and it was not pleasant. Wasn't ideal, but we got to Paris on time. If you even think there could be a strike, have a solid Plan B in place. It was very stressful trying to rebook transportation last minute.

According to this article,

Italy's civil aviation authority ENAC assures that flights are
guaranteed during strikes from 07.00-10.00 and 18.00-21.00.

https://www.wantedinrome.com/news/italy-national-general-strike-friday-2-december.html

I'm supposed to be landing at FCO at 11:20 AM with Delta. There's been no indication from Delta that the flight isn't running... but I can't tell if this affects all flights or just Vueling.