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All flights normal from Sunday: CAL

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All flights normal from Sunday: CAL

All flights normal from Sunday: CAL

TAIPEI (Taiwan News) – All flights will resume normal service beginning Sunday, one day earlier than originally planned after the flight attendants’ strike, China Airlines said Saturday.
Taiwan’s biggest carrier has been struggling with the fallout from a one-day strike Friday by the Taoyuan Flight Attendants Union, which ended with the company giving in to most of the protesters’ demands.
Despite a consensus being announced late on Friday, dozens of flights were still canceled Saturday, causing long lines and angry confrontations between passengers and ground staff, who did not strike.
Over two days, CAL canceled more than a hundred flights from and to Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport and Taipei Songshan Airport, affecting more than 20,000 passengers.
Even though the flight attendants would not return to work according to their usual schedule until Monday, sufficient staff had signed up to provide normal services on Sunday, CAL said.
In addition, June 26 would also see at least four extra flights to help compensate for the congestion at the north’s two major airports. CAL flights at other airports were hardly affected because staff there belonged to other unions, though some services between Kaohsiung and Taoyuan had been canceled.
CAL said its customer service help line would stay open 24 hours a day until the end of Sunday.
While strikers expressed satisfaction with the outcome of the talks with CAL, other unions threatened strikes of their own if they did not receive the same benefits as the Taoyuan union, while travel agencies demanded compensation for the hundreds of tour groups which faced trouble due to the industrial action.