Italy Airport Strikes on September 13 to Affect easyJet Flights, Rome and Tuscany Airports

Passengers travelling through several Italian airports face possible disruption on Sunday, September 13, 2026, as baggage handling, cabin crew and security staff hold strikes at locations across the country. easyJet cabin crew plan to strike for 24 hours nationwide, potentially affecting the airline's domestic and international flights, and Naples airport warned passengers that delays and cancellations may occur as a result.

At Rome's Fiumicino and Ciampino airports, security staff are striking for 24 hours, which may result in longer queues at security checks. Ground handling staff employed by Aviation Services at the same airports have also declared a strike from 11am to 3pm. At Pisa and Florence airports in Tuscany, ground staff employed by Toscana Aeroporti are expected to strike from 11am to 3pm, possibly causing delays at check-in and baggage claim.

The CUB union, which called the Tuscany strike after talks with airport management broke down, said staff had worked through the summer with faulty equipment and called on management to offer full-time contracts given record passenger numbers. Under Italian law, flights scheduled to depart between 7am–10am and 6pm–9pm must operate regardless of strikes, and Italy's civil aviation authority ENAC typically publishes a list of guaranteed flights ahead of industrial action.

Passengers whose flights are cancelled are entitled to a refund or rebooking under EU rules, and those waiting more than two hours for a replacement flight are entitled to food and drink assistance. The strikes are among the first to hit air travel since Italy's summer strike ban ended.

Strikes clustered around a single Sunday across cabin crew, security and ground handling show how labour disputes in Italian aviation tend to surface together once seasonal restrictions on industrial action lift, rather than in isolation at one airport or one employer. Protected departure windows and guaranteed-flight lists exist precisely because full shutdowns are rare; the exposure instead falls on midday and afternoon services and on connections that depend on ground handling turnaround.

The CUB union's framing — faulty equipment through the summer and a demand for full-time contracts against record passenger numbers — points to staffing and working-condition pressure building through peak season, a dynamic that recurs across ground handling contracts at busy European airports. Whether ENAC's guaranteed-flight list narrows the practical impact, and whether easyJet's 24-hour walkout produces cancellations beyond Naples, will only be clear once carriers confirm their operated schedules against the protected time bands.