The third and remaining day of cabin crew strikes in Spain has resulted in 80 cancelled flights on Friday, though the union representing the low-cost service’s flight attendants has warned there could possibly be extra stoppages if a deal isn’t reached.
As of 10am on Friday, the third day of the strike at easyJet, the airline has cancelled 80 flights throughout its 4 Spanish bases: Palma de Mallorca, Barcelona, Alicante and Málaga.
The 40 cancelled flight routes – 80 whole as they embody roundtrips – are as follows:
17 in Palma de Mallorca : Geneva (two), Basel (three), Naples, Berlin, Bordeaux, Zurich, Good, London Gatwick (two), Palermo, Nantes, Toulouse, Leeds Bradford and Paris Charles de Gaulle
11 in Málaga: Geneva (two), London Gatwick (two), Basel, Zurich, Bristol (two), Marrakech, Manchester and Nantes
4 in Alicante : Bristol, Basel, Southend and Lyon
8 in Barcelona : Berlin, Basel, Strasbourg, Naples, Geneva (two), Lisbon and Good
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The cabin crew protest started on Wednesday with the intention of ending in the present day (Friday June twenty seventh), though if there isn’t any settlement, organisers haven’t dominated out an indefinite strike in August.
The earlier two days of strikes have resulted in 124 cancelled flights, 62 on every day. Subsequently, the whole variety of grounded flights over the three days numbers 204.
Referred to as by Spanish staff’ union USO, the aim of the stoppage is to demand improved pay for easyJet’s Spain-based cabin crew, equalling their wages to that of their counterparts throughout different European nations the place the finances airways has bases.
Nonetheless, the airline’s administration maintains that “it isn’t attainable to check working situations between completely different nations,” since its workers are ruled by native contracts.
Pier Luigi Copello, the final secretary of USO at easyJet Spain, defined that the workforce is demanding honest and equitable working situations, “according to the European requirements that easyJet maintains in different nations, given the exorbitant enhance in the price of dwelling in Spain”, particularly in cities similar to Málaga, Palma de Mallorca, Barcelona and Alicante.
In accordance with Copello, easyJet flight attendants’ salaries in Spain receives a commission across the minimal wage.
