Flights to and from Dakar’s brand-new airport were cancelled on Friday after air traffic controllers went on strike just eight days after it opened. Controllers announced they would strike for 24 hours from 0001 GMT Friday, Blaise Diagne International Airport’s operators, LAS, said in a statement. The air traffic controllers’ association, Asecna, did not immediately respond to a request for comment. The Senegalese press say air traffic controllers are aggrieved over working conditions, especially the problem of getting to the airport which is much farther from the capital than the previous one. Its predecessor, Leopold Sedar Senghor international airport, now a military airport, is in Dakar’s suburbs.

Source: Punch December 15, 2017 16:07 UTC