{"id":383549,"date":"2017-12-15T09:55:20","date_gmt":"2017-12-15T09:55:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=383549"},"modified":"2017-12-15T09:55:20","modified_gmt":"2017-12-15T09:55:20","slug":"senegal-air-traffic-control-strike-new-dakar-airport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2017\/12\/senegal-air-traffic-control-strike-new-dakar-airport\/","title":{"rendered":"Senegal air traffic control strike at new Dakar airport"},"content":{"rendered":"
Flights at the new Dakar international airport in Senegal have been disrupted by an air traffic controllers’ strike, just a week after it opened.<\/p>\n
The 24-hour strike, which began at midnight GMT on Thursday, is about working conditions. Hundreds of passengers have been affected.<\/p>\n
Several flights have been cancelled, others were re-routed to The Gambia.<\/p>\n
The Blaise Diagne International Airport cost more than $600m (\u00a3447m) to build, replacing an ageing facility.<\/p>\n
Trade union leader Paul Francois Gomis told the BBC that staff wanted compensation for long travel times to the airport, which is 50km (31 miles) from the capital.<\/p>\n
He also said that the 60 air traffic controllers had not been trained in the use of new equipment in the new control tower.<\/p>\n
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Source: BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Flights at the new Dakar international airport in Senegal have been disrupted by an air traffic controllers’ strike, just a week after it opened. The 24-hour strike, which began at midnight GMT on Thursday, is about working conditions. Hundreds of passengers have been affected. Several flights have been cancelled, others were re-routed to The Gambia. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":383557,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[107],"tags":[2526],"yoast_head":"\n