First collateral damage from the new round of strikes at Ryanair. Summoned by unions USE Y Sitcplathe low cost airline cabin crew They have resumed this Monday a series of mobilizations that will last until Thursday and that will be repeated every week until January. At the moment, the first of these days left already at nine in the morning ten canceled flights and another 51 with delays at several national airports. This, despite the fact that the company said in a statement some time later that it calculates that the interruption of operations will be “minimal” in all the months that the strike lasts.
So far the most affected airport is Palma de Mallorca, where one departure and one arrival flight have been suspended and where in the early hours there were about fifteen delayed routes. The next is the Barcelonawhich concentrated eight cancellations (four return trips between the Catalan capital and Milan, Minorca, Rome Y London) and seven delayed flights. The rest of the hourly alterations occurred in Malaga (13), Madrid (5), Seville (4), Alicante (4), Santiago de Compostela (3) and Girona (1).
In any case, Ryanair has assured in a statement that this volume of damage does not even reach 1% of the 3,000 flights it operates per day. It has been precisely for this reason, in fact, that the airline has been convinced that the interruption will be “minimal, if any, in the operations scheduled for the coming months.” The company has recalled in the text that it has recently reached an agreement with the CCOO on the Spanish cabin crew salariesits combination of days off after several days in a row working and the accessories.
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However, according to the Efe and Europa Press agencies, the USO and Sitcpla unions have indicated this Monday that Ryanair “has not shown the slightest attempt to approach” them, but has instead publicly stated its refusal to engage in any dialogue with the representatives chosen by their crew. In addition, both organizations have denounced that the airline has fired several workers after the two previous strike calls.
This group of Ryanair workers in Spain have accumulated this summer six days of strike in June and twelve days in July.