International flights resumed after 10 am

The international flights have resumed after the air traffic controllers' six-hour strike ended at 10 am this morning.

The first aircraft left the country in the tenth hour and the first aircraft arrived in the country from North America in the eleventh hour.

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Demanding a 25% increase in wages

This was the second round of strikes by air traffic controllers, but two other strikes have been announced in the coming week, on Monday and Wednesday, if their wage dispute with the Confederation of Icelandic Enterprise, which negotiates on behalf of Isavia, is not agreed. A meeting of the parties to the dispute was called at the house of the mediator at 14 am today.

“I don’t know better but everything went well this morning and we’ve just been working according to the plan we sent out yesterday. We’re watching how things develop for the next week and hopefully some solution will come in the meantime,” Ásdís Ýr Pétursdóttir, Icelandair’s information officer, told mbl.is.