"So far, the minimum services have been met", which for Lanzarote are 77%, a spokesperson for Globalia, the company that includes Air Europa, explained to La Voz about the strike called by the company's pilots through the Spanish Union of Airline Pilots (SEPLA) for May 1, 2, 4 and 5.
Currently, the airline has a route between Lanzarote and Bilbao, with three weekly frequencies, and another between Lanzarote and Madrid with two frequencies. In June, the company plans to double the frequencies of Lanzarote with Madrid and add two new routes between the island and Santiago de Compostela and Barcelona.
"We have strengthened customer service and have given customers options for change or relocation. Everything has gone well, without incidents," said the Globalia spokesperson.
The union argues that they have called the strike because of "the tension and labor conflict generated by Air Europa executives playing with the rights of workers, disguising as proposals what amounts to a real loss of labor rights acquired in the IV Collective Agreement."
The pilots feel "discriminated against by the company" and consider it "discouraging" that in a last opportunity to avoid the strike with the mediation of the Interconfederal Mediation and Arbitration System (SIMA), the airline's executives "have opted for confrontation instead of negotiation, threatening and disqualifying the pilots instead of seeking a point of understanding between both parties."
