The island of Lanzarote observes with “concern” the strike of the Cabin Crew and Passengers (TCP) of the Irish airline Ryanair, which started this Monday and is scheduled to continue until January 7.
However, so far the strike has not affected the company's operations at the César Manrique airport, and the SPEL hopes that this will continue in the coming days.
“The strike is taking place in the bases that Ryanair has, and the company does not have any in the Canary Islands. Between that and the minimum services at 85%, the impact on the island is not being noticed so far”, explained the president of the Lanzarote Foreign Promotion Society (SPEL), Héctor Fernández, on Radio Lanzarote.
Fernández emphasizes that he hopes that the strike “will not have consequences in Lanzarote”, as he assures that the previous mobilization of Ryanair workers did not have either. “I believe that the routes to the Canary Islands will be attempted to be maintained, and so far there is no monitoring of the strike at the Lanzarote airport”, he adds.
However, the president of the SPEL does state that he is concerned about “the extension” that the strike may have, because tourists have scheduled dates to travel and they transmit “a lot of concern” to them.
“Ryanair has a great weight on the island, with more than 30 routes and more than 100 weekly flights, and the fact that with all that volume no cancellation has been communicated, reassures us to a certain extent”, Héctor Fernández points out, however.
The president of the SPEL assures that they will carry out “a monitoring” of the state of the Ryanair strike, regarding possible cancellations that flights to Lanzarote could suffer.
“A cancellation has a double consequence, the outbound and the return. We must be very aware, because the volume of flights per day is so high that a delay has a tremendous cascading effect”, Fernández concludes.