The air traffic controllers' strike at Lanzarote airport "is not causing cancellations at the moment, and there are no delays", Roberto Ruiz, spokesperson for SAERCO, the private company that manages the control tower of the Lanzarote airport, explained to La Voz.
Ruiz confirms that "it has opened at the scheduled time and that, for now, there is normality" at the César Mánrique airport despite the strike called by the USCA and CCOO unions for this Monday and the next four: 6, 13, 20 and 27 February.
The unions attribute the strike to the failure of negotiations for the IV collective agreement for the sector.
In addition to the Lanzarote airport, this call is aimed at professionals who provide control services in the towers of the airports of A Coruña, Alicante-Elche, Castellón, Cuatro Vientos, El Hierro, Fuerteventura, Ibiza, Jerez, La Palma, Lleida, Murcia, Sabadell, Seville, Valencia and Vigo.
These unions were negotiating the collective agreement with the business association APCTA, which includes the private providers of the liberalized market SAERCO and FerroNATS, but finally broke off negotiations.