The strikes of the
low cost airlines
Ryanair, Easyjet and Iberia Express
coincide this Monday and threaten to complicate the operation of returning from vacations.
On the one hand, the Irish Ryanair, whose cabin crew have been on strike since June, celebrates a new day of strikes, with 28 delays and no cancellations.
In the case of
Ryanair,
the strikes, called by the USO and Sitcpla unions, take place every week from Monday to Thursday and are expected to last until January if an agreement is not reached with the company for an improvement in their working conditions. , among other things.
The airline Iberia Express
began its first day of stoppages yesterday, with eight cancellations, and this Monday it plans to operate 94 flights, which are 90% of all those scheduled for today and are protected by the Minimum Services Resolution established by the Ministry of Transportation.
The cabin crew ask that the negotiation of the collective agreement and a salary increase be unblocked.
The company has asked USO to call off the strikes and "bet on dialogue and not on social confrontation, which does so much damage to Iberia Express workers, its customers and the future of the company."
The airline
had previously
and preventively canceled five flights to Gran Canaria, Malaga, Mallorca, Santiago and Seville with the aim of minimizing the impact on its customers.
Of the 1,300 passengers affected by these cancellations, 1,000 have already been relocated to other Iberia Express or Iberia flights or to other companies or alternative means of transport.
The rest have requested bonus or reimbursement.
In the case of Easyjet, those on strike are the pilots, who began the third round of 72-hour stoppages on Saturday.
According to him
Spanish Union of Airline Pilots (Sepla), the organizer of the strike, since the stoppages began there have already been 79 flight cancellations.
Easyjet pilots claim to return to
the conditions they had before the pandemic
.
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