The Lanzarote Airport concentrated new moderate delays during the morning of this Tuesday due to the air traffic controllers' strike. This is reflected on the Eurocontrol website.
The demands of the workers who want to negotiate a new collective agreement with the company that manages the privatized control tower of César Manrique have been going on for ten months now.
"Air traffic controllers would be delighted to be able to call off the strike that has been going on for 10 months. The refusal to negotiate a new agreement by the private manager of the control tower leaves us no other option," Air Traffic Controllers said through their official X account (formerly Twitter).
For its part, the company Saerco has maintained for weeks that the USCA union, an intermediary in the negotiations, "is causing citizens to suffer delays that they should not suffer." At the same time, they have pointed out that "deep down, USCA is against the development of the private sector (which has been operating without problems for more than a decade) and that is why it wants to boycott it."
As a result of this situation, the Minister of Public Works, Housing and Mobility of the Canary Islands Executive, Pablo Rodríguez, has announced that he has requested in writing to the Ministry of Transport and Sustainable Mobility to "address the situation generated as a result of the air traffic controllers' strike at the Lanzarote airport, so that it can intercede and promote dialogue and negotiations with the aim of not harming the island's connectivity."
