(Reuters) – Belgium’s biggest airport will cancel nearly half of its flights on Wednesday, and no flights will leave Ryanair’s Charleroi hub due to a strike called over declining purchasing power. Brussels-Zaventem Airport, which handled around two million travelers in September, said it expected “serious service disruptions” due to the social movement and that many flights had been canceled or rescheduled to avoid long wait times and delays. South of Brussels, the second Belgian airport, Charleroi, indicated on its website that it had canceled all its flights. Across the country, local transport networks will bring public travel to a halt on Wednesday, while Belgian workers demonstrate in Brussels demanding better wages and working conditions. Annual inflation in Belgium reached 12.27% in October 2022, its highest level since June 1975, due to soaring food and energy prices.
(Marine Strauss report, French version Augustin Turpin, edited by Jean-Stéphane Brosse)
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