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EasyJet cabin crew at Lisbon, Porto and Faro walked out today in a five-day strike that unions say could ground roughly 500 flights and disrupt 80,000 passengers, with a second walkout planned for December.
EasyJet's French pilot union SNPL has called a two-day strike for September 13-14, just weeks after cabin crew won guaranteed schedule stability through their own walkout — and pilots say they've been offered nothing similar.
easyJet will end all flying from Leeds Bradford in early January 2027, closing a presence that began in 2010. Because it was only the airport's fifth-largest operator, the retreat says more about how thoroughly Jet2 and Ryanair have taken the airport than about Yorkshire demand.