Strikes in Italy have caused low cost airline easyJet to cancel a number of flights.That includes routes from Venice to Gatwick/Berlin/Rome and around nine other services.easyJet is just one of a number of tour operators to be hit by Air Traffic Controller strikes around Europe.Ryanair CEO Michael O’Leary recently called on the European Commission to remove the right to strike from essential air services after a series of Spanish airport strikes.

Meanwhile easyJet has been in the news for both good and bad reasons this week. The good news was the announcement of a new NECTAR card scheme.
The loyalty card will now allow customers to exchange their points, which they can get from buying various items, in return for easyJet flights. It will not work the other way around with points doled out for buying flights.
Easyjet chief executive Carolyn McCall: Unlike traditional flight point schemes, customers can get a discount on any flight, any day across the easyJet network.This partnership is the first commercial initiative for easyJet since the new brand license agreement and demonstrates how we can offer even more to our customers.

Under the scheme 500 NECTAR points will be worth £2.5. As EasyJet sometimes does one-way routes for as little as £13, the deal could see significant savings.It is the first time the EasyJet has done a commercial deal since their founder Stelios Haji-Ioannou came into dispute with the airline.
The bad news is that EasyJet has made a serious gaffe with its Jewish customers after trying to serve them pork meals on a flight from Israel.
Passenger Victor Kaufman said: It was a little insensitive. I think they need a lesson on cultural awareness if they expand their routes into the Middle East.However easyJet had promised to offer kosher meals but claimed that the staff brought the wrong food canisters on board.