Looks like Middle East Airlines resumed all their flights as of last night after the pilots ended their 5 days strike.
Captain Fadi Khalil, head of the pilots’ union, announced the strike had ended at midnight on Saturday. Normal scheduling resumed on Sunday.
“Out of concern for our company and Lebanon’s tourism sector, and out of respect for our passengers, we announce the suspension of our strike,” Khalil said at a news conference, adding that the strike was “in principle over.” Source.
It’s irritating how problems are being handled over the last few days. The Lebanese Pilots Association initially had a problem with the MEA management over firing a pilot diagnosed with cancer, and next thing we knew is flights are all suspended via MEA.
Two days ago, some problem/dispute (whatever it is) happened at the Zahrani power plant, and the employees ended up halting all power generation!
And who gets caught in the middle of everything? Us.
Don’t you think that since we didn’t care enough to protest about the problem in the first place that the internal members had to react!
Striking is an age old form of protest. Yes it stops the flow of things but that is the whole POINT of a strike. People use that method after all else has failed. And I’ve been following both mentioned stories and everything else failed, drastically. Ironically we need more strikes in Lebanon to get things going :-/
You said it so well.. we’re always the ones who end up suffering. Go figure.
Ya haram matele3lon la 7a2 wala batail…