Flight operations at Basel-Mulhouse Airport could be delayed tomorrow. The reason: air traffic controllers and maintenance workers want to go on strike.

Apparently both the air traffic controllers and the maintenance staff at Basel-Mulhouse Airport are going on strike tomorrow. The air traffic controllers and electrical engineers fear a planned restructuring of the technical maintenance service in the flight control center, the maintenance service is to be subordinated to the technical service in Strasbourg in the future, according to blick.ch. The problem: The trade unions fear that under the Strasbourg regime maintenance work in Mulhouse could no longer be carried out with the same priority and that there could be delays in flight operations.

Not only that, the location is also faced with a personnel problem. This would further fuel the calls for strikes. "Particularly in the summer, air traffic controllers are forced to combine control positions so that a single employee does the work of several," the unions complain. Furthermore, aircraft take-off and landing times would have to be delayed to keep the workload at a tolerable level.

It is still unclear to what extent the strike on November 8 will affect flight operations. After all: The French air traffic control has guaranteed a minimum number of employees. Accordingly, there will generally be no flight cancellations. Anyone planning to depart from Basel next Tuesday should still inquire about changes in the flight schedule in good time and perhaps be at the airport a little earlier.

With nine million passengers a year, Mulhouse is a major airport in north-eastern France. In addition, Euro-Airport is also popular with many Swiss passengers, not only in the Basel region.