The General Director of Transportation of the Government of the Canary Islands, Rosa Dávila, will meet this Tuesday with the heads of Civil Aviation of the Ministry of Development, in Madrid, to coordinate the measures to be adopted by the State Administration in the event of an extension of the Binter Canarias strike.
Despite the fact that the powers in this matter correspond to the Ministry of Development, Dávila and the acting Minister of Infrastructure, Transport and Housing, Domingo Berriel, consider it essential that "the measures to be adopted be coordinated to try to alleviate the consequences of this strike and to enforce the public service obligations that guarantee communications between the Islands," they explain in a statement.
The spokesperson for the strike committee of the Spanish Union of Airline Pilots (SEPLA) in Binter Canarias, Jaime Hernández, announced last week that a negotiation process would be opened between the pilots and the company, but that the strike will not cease "until an agreement is reached between both parties."
Therefore, he already announced that the strike would be extended to Thursdays, Fridays, Sundays and Mondays, starting this week, and if the conflict continues, "in September it will be indefinite."
Hernández explained, in statements to ACN Press, that the pilots "are not asking for a salary increase or salary improvements, but rather that our job is guaranteed through a viability plan for the company."
Regarding the reasons that have led them to start the strike, he pointed out that before the stoppages began, Binter had "13 planes on staff, and today we only have nine. They have taken away four that have been transferred to another airline called Naysa, which is flying for Binter," he said.
He also pointed out that Binter Canarias announced the purchase of six new planes last year, "but the first two have already arrived and have not been incorporated into the Binter staff, but have been included in Naysa's."
ACN Press
