Six flights have been canceled this Wednesday and another 160 have suffered delays on the third day of strike of the four to which cabin crew at Ryanair are called this week in Spain by the USO and Sitcpla unions.
As reported by USO, until 7:00 p.m., three of the six suspended flights had departed from Barcelona airport and the other three arrived in Barcelona from London, Brussels and Milan.
For its part, the delays have affected Palma de Mallorca to a greater extent (43 delayed departure or arrival flights); Madrid (28); Barcelona (21), and Malaga (15). At the Santiago base, 12 flights have left or arrived late; in Seville and Girona, 11 in each case; in Ibiza, 8; in Valencia, 7; and in Alicante, 4.
The strikes affect the ten Spanish bases where Ryanair operates (Madrid, Malaga, Seville, Alicante, Valencia, Barcelona, Gerona, Santiago de Compostela, Ibiza and Palma de Mallorca).
USO has explained that the flights canceled in Barcelona "were the only ones not considered minimum services by the decree" so Ryanair "has decided to cancel in advance" given the certainty that the workers would go on strike, the union added.
This is a new round of strikes at Ryanair's Spanish bases that began this Monday and will last until January, with strikes every week from Monday to Thursday. Between Monday and Tuesday there have been 12 cancellations - ten on Monday and two on Tuesday - and several hundred delays, according to USO.
Ryanair has already suffered 14 days of strike this summer that resulted in nearly 300 canceled flights to or from Spain, according to the union, which denounces that since the beginning of these mobilizations the company has fired 11 cabin crew illegal and has opened disciplinary proceedings against another hundred.
Meanwhile, the airline has been highlighting this week that it expects a minimal impact on its operations in Spain due to these stoppages and recalls that it has recently reached an agreement with the Workers' Commissions on the salaries, schedules and supplements of its Spanish cabin crew.
