But this does not mean painless travel. “If they go ahead with the strike, it will undeniably cause serious disruption to the thousands of people planning their vacations,” Interior Secretary Suera Braverman said.
Train strikes, delays and cancellations
Nationwide RMT strike:
Tuesday, December 13thWednesday, December 14thFriday, December 16th- Saturday, December 17th
- Saturday, December 24th
- Monday, December 26th
- Tuesday, December 27th
- Tuesday, January 3rd
- Wednesday, January 4th
- Friday 6th January
- Saturday, January 7th
A series of further local rail strikes take place on other days in December.
Regional strikes:
Sunday 11 December – RMT Avanti West Coast StrikeMonday 12th December – RMT Avanti West Coast Strike- Friday December 23rd – Solidarity Strike Affecting East Midlands Railway
- Saturday 24th December – Solidarity strike affecting East Midlands Railway
First/last train information
Rail workers are scheduled to be out from Christmas Eve until December 27th, but trains generally don’t run on Christmas and only limited services run on Boxing Day. But tens of thousands of people planning a celebratory vacation could be stranded in the country and unable to spend the holidays with their families.
On strike days other than the Christmas weekend strike, only one-fifth of trains are expected to operate, impacting nearly all operators.
The day after the strike, the so-called ‘shoulder day’, the timetable will be about 60% of normal.
Avanti said it expects a significant reduction in service on Dec. 11 and Dec. 12 due to industrial action. The East Midlands Railway warns that last departures will be by 4:30pm on strike days, with very limited service.
Airport strikes, delays and cancellations: international and domestic flights
where?
- heathrow
- Gatwick
- manchester
- birmingham
- Glasgow
- Cardiff
- Port of New Haven
when?
- December 23rd
- December 24th
- December 25th
- December 26th
- December 28th
- December 29th
- December 30th
- December 31
What are airlines saying?
So far, not many. The sentiment is that cancellations won’t be widespread, but the disruption will be significant.
- British Airways – has not commented yet. Sources said they hoped the disruption would be minimal.
- EasyJet said it was “too early” to reveal the impact of the attacks on flight schedules, but said it planned to operate as normal. “As you can imagine, we are talking to individual airports about contingency plans.”
- Jet2 – “We will operate a full schedule of flights.”
- Virgin Atlantic said it was working to “minimize disruption”.
