The Ryanair strike in Spain had little impact on traffic

Ryanair cabin crew concluded this Thursday a new period of their strike movement that began in early summer with a dozen flights canceled in four days, a low impact due to retaliation by the company according to the unions.

The start of the strike, between June 25 and July 2 (25, 26, 30, 1 and 2) had seen 215 flights cancelled, according to figures provided by the unions.

No flights had been canceled on Thursday and since Monday there have only been about ten cancellations, although there have been delays in 300 flights. If for the unions these messes are due to their social movement, the company attributes them to other factors.

“professional bondage”

“Any delays and cancellations recorded by the airline are not due to the strike, but to problems with controllers across Europe,” Ryanair spokeswoman Elena Cabrera said in a video posted on Twitter, where she called for monitoring of the strike. . “very low”.

The strike is very popular, refuted Lidia Arasanz, general secretary of the Union Syndicale Ouvrier (USO), one of the unions that calls the movement, according to her, “the 22 dismissals” and the “more than 200 employees in disciplinary proceedings”.

The trade unionist explained that there would be legal consequences for these dismissals because they deny the right to strike, accusing Ryanair of “professional slavery”.

easyjet too

USO also accuses the company of bringing crews from abroad to operate its flights.

In the middle of the tourist season, this strike at Ryanair joins those of the pilots of Easyjet, another low-cost company, which will resume this weekend, as well as a social movement of the cabin crew of Iberia Express -under – cost subsidiary of the Spanish company Iberia – will be on strike from August 28 to September 6.

The employees of the Irish company in Spain began their strike cycle in June and July, and intend to continue it until January 7, 2023, four days a week (Monday to Thursday).

The strikers are demanding in particular an improvement in their working conditions and the signing of a collective agreement. According to the unions, Ryanair is the only international company that does not have a collective agreement in Spain.