The company Binter Canarias must operate, during the strike that begins this Sunday, all "inter-island flights subject to public service obligations in which the company is the only operator", according to the essential services decreed by Ministerial Order and announced in a statement by the Spanish Union of Airline Pilots (Sepla) in Binter Canarias.
In the case of routes between islands in which another company also operates, the minimum services will be 75 percent. These will be reduced to 50 percent when it comes to flights between Canary airports and foreign cities whose travel time is less than six hours.
The "strike will not affect the transport of mail, medicines, daily press and perishable products", the text clarifies.
Likewise, the union assures that the stipulated minimum services will be fulfilled "scrupulously" to continue offering an air transport service as efficient as possible to the Canarian society to which it apologizes in advance for any possible damages caused.
The stipulated minimum services will affect "all workers of the group of pilots who provide their services in any of the work centers and dependencies of the company Binter Canarias".
The strike will begin this Sunday and will continue next Monday and Tuesday. Subsequently, the pilots' union has planned the dates of "1, 3, 4, 8, 10, 11, 18, 22, 24 and 25 June and from July 1, indefinitely, every Monday and Friday of each month".
The Sepla in Binter Canarias considers that the airline has not made "any attempt to reach a consensual solution to the main concerns expressed by the technical crew pilots", although it respects the "possible verbal commitments reached by other union organizations with the management" of this airline, the statement said.
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