Easyjet cabin crew announce three days of summer strike action grounding flights later this month
17 June 2025, 12:45 | Updated: 17 June 2025, 12:57
Easyjet cabin crew have announced three days of strike action affecting dozens of flights from Europe later this month.
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The strikes are set to impact thousands of travellers flying to and from Spain and other European destinations this summer, with the budget carrier confirming the news on Monday.
Around 657 members of cabin crew are set to walk out during the strike action, which is set to affect 21 aircraft in the fleet.
According to the Unión Sindical Obrera (USO), a Spanish trade union, airports affected by the action are set to include Barcelona, Alicante, Malaga, and Majorca will be hit by the walkout, following a negotiation for higher wages.
It comes weeks after EasyJet emphasised it was expecting to run a normal schedule during half-term, despite industrial action by oil refuelers at the airport.
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The USO confirmed the three days of strike action will take place on June 25, June 26 and June 27.
Thousands of passengers are set to be affected, with the budget carrier, with Easyjet aircrafts hold as many as 235 passengers per flight.
A USO spokesperson said on Monday: "The objective of this strike is to achieve equal working and salary conditions for cabin crew in Spain with those at other European bases where the company operates, with differences between 30 per cent and 200 per cent.
"The workforce is demanding decent, fair, and equitable working conditions, in line with the European standards that easyJet maintains in other countries, given the exorbitant increase in the cost of living in Spain, which has been brought into line with Europe."
According to data and travel website AirAdvisor, similar strike action spanning a 72-hour period in 2022 saw up to 50 per cent of flights cancelled across Spanish bases housing the fleet.
Easyjet has been contacted for comment.
