Sudden Illness of Pilots: AUA Cancels 24 Flights

TransportAirlines & Airports ♦ Published: May 14, 2012; 16:23 ♦ (Vindobona)

During the weekend, Austrian Airlines had to cancel 24 flights. A surprising mass illness among AUA´s pilots occurred.

Sudden Illness of Pilots: AUA Cancels 24 Flights / Picture: © Austrian Airlines / Flickr Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 Generic (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0)

From Friday to Sunday, 24 flights had to be cancelled as many pilots said to be “unfit to fly”. A part of the flights could be compensated by the subsidiary Tyrolean. However, most flights had to be delayed or changed. Flights to Delhi and Dubai were affected as well as flights within Europe.

It is supposed that AUA´s pilots wanted to protest against the management´s…