The second day of the easyJet cabin crew strike in Spain on Thursday June twenty sixth has to date resulted in 62 flight cancellations, based on the primary replace.
Sixty-two easyJet flights to and from Spain have been cancelled on the second of a three-day strike by the airline’s Spain-based cabin crew staff.
This is similar variety of cancelled flights as on Wednesday, and it impacts the identical 4 airports in Spain: Palma de Mallorca, Barcelona, Málaga, and Alicante.
Departures and arrivals from Mallorca’s Palma airport are probably the most affected by the protests, with 26 cancellations to and from Geneva, Zurich, Berlin, London, Gatwick, Lyon, Milan-Malpensa, Athens, Porto, Paris-Charles de Gaulle, Naples, Basel, and Prague.
There are 18 flights that won’t depart or arrive at Barcelona’s El Prat airport, akin to connections with Basel, Geneva, London, Berlin, Bristol, Lisbon and Good.
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As on the day prior to this, 10 flights from Málaga Airport, flight connections to and from Geneva, Basel, London, and Bristol.
One other 8 flights to and from Alicante Airport to Athens, Basel, Nantes and Good won’t take off both.
That takes the full variety of cancelled flights to date to 162. A 3rd day of strike is scheduled for Friday June twenty seventh.
The stoppages have been organised by USO, a staff’ union representing easyJet’s workers in Spain.
They’re demanding the administration of the low-cost provider enhance the wages of their cabin crew that are primarily based in Spain, that are at the moment the bottom in Europe.
“Whereas our base wage is €14,067 per yr, our European colleagues earn from 29 % extra in Portugal to over 200 % extra in Switzerland,” stated Pier Luigi Copello, USO’s common secretary at easyJet.
“Subsequently, we demand equal pay with different European bases. We’re not asking for privileges, we’re asking for what’s honest.”
USO has additionally criticised the truth that easyJet flight attendants are on nine-month non permanent contracts, which provides to their precariousness in 4 cities with a few of the highest residing prices in Spain.
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