There are no vacations that are priced without an air strike in the middle of the departure or return operation. The last weekend of August, which runs from Friday 30 to Sunday on September 1, will be altered by the stoppages convened by Iberia and Ryanair at Spanish airports. The low cost will star in the wave of summer mobilizations, with strike days that began yesterday in Portugal and will be extended in Spain, the United Kingdom, Ireland or Belgium.

The UGT union has called a strike at the Adolfo Suárez Madrid-Barajas airport for the ground staff of the Iberia company on August 30 and 31 during 24 hours. This is Friday and Saturday, dates on which, in addition to coinciding with the weekend, many vacationers are returning from their summer destinations.

These strike days are added to those that will take place at the Barcelona-El Prat Airport this weekend and the next one (which follow those held in July) and those convened at the Loiu airport (Bilbao) on September 8 and 9 .

The company said yesterday that it does not understand that the unions call the stoppages in full return operation and will ensure that they are open to dialogue to try to avoid strikes. What workers demand is to "end the perpetual eventuality" and convert part-time jobs into full-time jobs.

Ryanair

The protests of Iberia are joined by the low-cost company Ryanair, which is the one that carries more passengers in Spain. If this is taken into account and that it has convened 10 days of work stoppages in September at its 13 Spanish bases, fears of chaos resulting from delays and cancellations at the different affected airports are justified.

In the case of the Irish company, it is the cabin crew unions that go on strike to protest the closure of two of the most tourist bases, that of Gran Canaria and Tenerife, in January 2020. Also It is planned to close the Girona one a little later. Yesterday the unions representing cabin crew met with the company to find an agreed solution and avoid stoppages but did not reach any agreement.

In Ireland, the company did manage to sign up yesterday after the country's justice proved it right and blocked the strike called by the airline pilots for Thursday and tomorrow Friday.

Ryanair had called on the Dublin High Court to prevent the strike by considering that the unions had summoned him in a hurried manner, before he mediated the mediation procedure. The Court proved the company right, which is also awaiting a decision by the British courts on another strike pilots in the United Kingdom.

In Portugal, the five-day stoppages convened by the cabin crew (and which began yesterday) have been somewhat decaffeinated after the Portuguese government decreed minimum services on certain routes.

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