Madrid (EFE) May at all the airline’s bases and work centers in Spain.
Among the destinations affected on this Tuesday, there are frequencies that do not operate with Rome, Milan, Porto, Paris, Vigo, Bilbao, A Coruña and Palma de Mallorca.
As company sources have indicated to EFE, the first day of the strike, which took place yesterday, Monday, passed without incident and the minimum services were fulfilled.
Reinforced passenger service channels
Likewise, they have indicated that Air Europa has reinforced the channels of attention to passengers to facilitate any type of information and also for changes of flights or destination.
The Ministry of Transport, Mobility and the Urban Agenda published on April 28 the minimum services established for the strike called by Sepla against what the union considers “unacceptable demands” from management, which entail a loss of labor rights for the collective pilots.
The Ministry’s resolution establishes that 100% of the flights dedicated to emergency work must be respected, while for domestic routes to or from non-peninsular territories, up to 77% of those departing from Lanzarote or Tenerife North must be maintained.
The range of minimum services established for these routes ranges up to a minimum of 50% for flights from Malaga, 53% from Alicante and 55% from Valencia.
For journeys within the peninsula whose travel time by public transport is greater than 5 hours and international flights, minimum services must be respected that range from 38% of flights departing from Bilbao; 46% in cases such as Alicante, Barcelona and Seville, and 53% from Madrid.
With regard to peninsular domestic flights whose travel time by public transport is less than 5 hours, minimum services of between 22% and 26% must be offered at points of origin such as Alicante, Valencia or Granada, and 34 %, in the case of Barcelona.
“Disproportionate” minimum services
Sepla announced last Saturday that it will sue the Ministry of Transport, Mobility and Urban Agenda for these minimum services, which it considers “disproportionate”.
According to Sepla, with these services, the Ministry “completely empties the right to strike and minimizes its effects, to the point of prioritizing the protection of the interests of the airlines against pilots, workers in the aviation sector and the public.” ”.
Likewise, Sepla has announced that it will carry out, together with other air transport unions, a rally next Friday, May 5, in front of the Ministry to protest against the “abusive” application of minimum services by the Government.