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   By Cecilia Butini 
 

European airlines including Ryanair Holdings PLC, easyJet PLC and Volotea SA have cancelled flights to and from major Italian airports on Wednesday amid a call for a nationwide strike from several workers' unions.

Milan's Bergamo and Malpensa airports, as well as Aeroporti di Roma, the company operating all airports in the Italian capital, said in different statements there could be cancellations and delays due to the strikes on Wednesday.

The return to prepandemic levels of flight activity has sparked a fierce competition among carriers, to the detriment of workers, said in a statement Unione Sindacale di Base, one of the unions organizing the strike. A spokesman for the Uiltrasporti union said budget airlines Ryanair, easyJet and Volotea had been forced to cancel some flights as a result of the actions.

ITA Airways, the country's national carrier, said it was only affected by an air controller strike in Milan, and that it had taken action over the past few days to reroute the affected passengers and avoid disruption.

Write to Cecilia Butini at cecilia.butini@wsj.com

(END) Dow Jones Newswires

June 08, 2022 10:39 ET (14:39 GMT)

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