There were no EasyJet flights canceled to or from Spain this Saturday, during the new episode of the low-cost company’s pilots’ strike, announced one of the unions behind the movement.
“Between midnight and noon this Saturday, August 27, there were no cancellations in the middle of the Easyjet pilots’ strike at the Barcelona, Palma de Mallorca and Malaga bases,” said the Spanish union of airline pilots (Sepla). .
Spanish Easyjet pilots began their movement on August 12, planning work stoppages every weekend from Friday to Sunday until the end of the month.
74 flights canceled since the beginning of the movement
Since the beginning of their strike, 74 flights have had to be cancelled, specifies the Sepla, which indicated that it had challenged the minimum services set by the Government before the National Court.
The pilots demand a return to their working conditions before the Covid-19 pandemic and negotiations around the new collective agreement.
During the pandemic, they had taken a pay cut to keep”[leurs] jobs, but also the survival of the company itself in Spain,” the union explained on August 12, specifying that EasyJet had refused to restore its pre-pandemic working conditions.
In the midst of the tourist season and the resumption of activity, this social movement joins others that other low cost companies have undertaken since the beginning of summer, such as Ryanair or Iberia Express.
The low-cost subsidiary of the Spanish company Iberia announced this Saturday the “preventive” cancellation of 28 domestic flights between Sunday and Wednesday due to a cabin crew strike scheduled for ten days.
The company explained that it wanted to “minimize the effects of this strike called by (the union) USO” and that it was still evaluating the situation for the continuation of the movement from September 1 to 6.
Source: BFM TV
