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An airline crew strike over pay earns you €250–€600 or £220–£520 in Europe. Air traffic control and airport strikes pay nothing, but care is still…
By Anjali Shrestha · Oct 4, 2026
Whether a strike earns you cash depends on who is striking. In the EU and the UK, a strike by the airline's own pilots or cabin crew over pay or conditions is the airline's problem, so a late cancellation or a three-hour delay pays €250 to €600 or…
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Under EU261 and UK261, a strike by the airline's own employees over pay or working conditions is not an extraordinary circumstance, so compensation is owed. The Court of Justice decided it in Airhelp v SAS (C-28/20, 2021): a strike called by unions over pay…
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An air traffic control strike is external to the airline, so in Europe and the UK it pays no compensation, but meals, drinks and a hotel are still owed. The Commission's 2024 guidelines list strikes by air traffic controllers and airport staff as external…
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Usually extraordinary, because the airline does not employ the strikers, but not always. The guidelines treat strikes by airport staff as external, and the court has also accepted that a shortage of the airport operator's own baggage-loading staff can be…
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Europe and the UK are the only places where a strike can earn cash, and only for the airline's own staff. Canada's Air Passenger Protection Regulations list "a labour disruption within the carrier or within an essential service provider such as an airport or…
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Find out who is striking, when your airline was told, and whether you can move your flight for free before the day. Read the strike notice, not the headline. Is it the airline's crew, the controllers or the airport? Our strike reports name the union and the…
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Claim from the airline that operated the cancelled or delayed flight, with the reason it gave and when it told you. If it calls an airline crew strike "extraordinary", cite C-28/20; if it calls a handler's strike extraordinary, ask who chose that handler…
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In the EU and UK, yes if the airline's own staff struck over pay or conditions and you were told less than 14 days ahead. No if air traffic controllers or airport staff struck. In Canada and the US, no cash for any strike. Yes. It is outside the airline's…
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What airlines owe you, country by country. Which excuses stop an EU261 payout. Rebooking and cash when a connection goes. What airlines owe after a system failure. Sources: Regulation (EC) No 261/2004, Articles 5 and 9, and the UK version on…
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