The airline could not be immediately reached for comment.įlights to the United States, Portugal and Turkey were hit, travelers said. Paul Francois Gomis, a leader of Senegalese air traffic controllers who were on strike, said that some union members in Cameroon, Congo and the Comoros had been arrested for participating in the strike.Īir Senegal had grounded several flights as a result of the action, Reuters said. Authorities across B.C.s South Coast urged residents to stay home on Tuesday after a rare, major snowfall choked virtually every avenue of transportation, from grounded flights at the airport. The USYCAA union said in a statement that its members would cease providing services to all but 'sensitive' flights until their demands were satisfied. 'We have already exhausted both administrative and institutional remedies in the management of this crisis, but we have in front of us trade unionists who are stubborn to do whatever they want,' ASECNA's head of human resources, Ceubah Guelpina, told a news conference. the Union of Air Traffic Controllers' Unions (USYCAA) has launched a wildcat strike,' ASECNA said Friday. 'In spite of the prohibition of the strike by all the courts. On Friday night, a busy one for travel, flights to and from Europe and the United States were halted, said Reuters' reporters at Senegal's Blaise Diagne International Airport and in the United States.įlights inside Africa were also affected, airlines and passengers said.ĪSECNA told customers to check airline websites for updates. Staff at the Agency for Aerial Navigation Safety in Africa and Madagascar (ASECNA), which regulates air traffic across 18 countries, stopped working Friday during a dispute over working conditions and pay, defying court rulings and government bans barring them from doing so.

An air traffic control strike grounded flights in and out of West and Central Africa on Friday, causing chaos for passengers traveling to Europe and the United States and inside the continent.

Planes grounded west coast