The strikes in the airlines mark again the last week of August and the start of September. This Monday the passengers of Iberia Express, Ryanair and Easyjet will experience a new day of protests by the cabin crew.
According to figures from USO, the organizer of the Iberia Express strike, up to 10 flights had been canceled in the IAG group airline in the first hour. To these are added 10 flights that were operated by Spanish crews from London and have been deprogrammed, now being operated by British Airways.
These canceled flights are the connections from Madrid with Palma, Gran Canaria, Santiago de Compostela, Madrid and Seville. It must be taken into account that the base of Iberia Express is in the capital, so it will be the most affected.
In this way, it will operate 94 flights (90.4% of those scheduled), all of them included in the minimum services decree issued by the Government. With the protest, the workers want the company to sit down to negotiate the collective agreement to adjust wages to the increase in the cost of living. The union denounces that salaries have been frozen since 2015.
On the other hand, the Easyjet pilots have caused four delays in El Prat with another day of the strike called by Sepla, in all cases in arrivals. The workers demand to recover the salaries prior to the pandemic and press to close the second collective agreement: the company has rejected the three proposals that the union has presented for the recovery of working conditions and they have not had any contact for two weeks.
In the case of the Ryanair strike, called by USO and Sitcpla, until 09:00 there were 28 delays between departures and arrivals. In Madrid there are 6, as the most affected, by the 5 in Malaga or Palma de Mallorca. There are also problems in Barcelona, Alicante and Santiago de Compostela (3 in all of them), Ibiza (2) and Seville (1).
Ryanair cabin crew ask that the company comply with Spanish legislation in the ten Spanish bases where it operates and recover the working and salary conditions prior to the pandemic.
