The strike of the ‘handling’ (ground handling service) workers of the Iberia group (Iberia, Iberia Express and Air Nostrum) from this Friday until Monday, January 8 has forced the cancellation of 444 flights throughout the country, but none of them are departing from or arriving in Lanzarote.
This has been confirmed to La Voz by a spokesperson for Iberia Express, who also explained that in the Canary Islands, 20 flights have been canceled on the islands of Gran Canaria and Tenerife, which forced the relocation of some 4,600 passengers.
The strike has been called by CCOO and UGT, and the USO union has joined it, after Iberia lost the concession for the provision of the service in eight Spanish airports in September in the tender called by the airport manager, Aena.
The unions demand that, instead of the workers being subrogated to the companies that will now provide that service, the Iberia group should do ‘autohandling’ in the airports where it will no longer provide the service, that is, that it provides that service to the airlines of its group, which Iberia refuses to do.