A ramp service company staff meeting intercharge at the Metropolitan Airport generated, on the eve of the long weekend, delays on flights of various airlines starting at noon.
The measure of strength of the state-owned company, whose workforce is employed in the Air Force Personnel Association (APA) has generated delays of up to nine hours on the flights of the two “low cost” airlines operating at the Buenos Aires airport, Flybondi and JetSmart. There were also significant delays in international airline takeoffs. Latam, Gol, Paranair and Sky.
Argentine airlinesthe main airline operating at the Aeroparque, it was not delayed by the APA assemblygiven that It has its own ramp service operator.
Indeed, both Aerolíneas and Intercargo have executives who are politically accountable to the group La Camporà. But far from applauding the APA’s measure of strength, they’ve come out of that space with caps against the union leading Edgardo Plain.
The spokesmen of La Cámpora stressed that the head of Intercargo, Pablo Fernández Fayolealready requested the intervention of the Ministry of Labor to dictate the compulsory conciliation.
“This measure of secret strength is not understood. It is assumed that (Edgardo) Llano is a ally our politician, the other day he sat next to Wado De Pedro, and now hits us on the eve of a long weekend”, said sources in the group.
The complaint by the APA, as reported (the union has not issued a communication so far) is a request for union membership of the staff of the Swissport Argentina ramp company, which operates for international airlines at the Ezeiza airport.
According to an internal report by the operator Aeropuertos Argentina 2000, up to 17:00 there have been delays in the departures of around 25 flights of Flybondi, JetSmart, Latam Brazil, Gol, Latam Peru and Sky Airlines. The delays ranged from from two to nine hours.
Source: Clarin
