Exile covid Like the ghost of past Christmas, the clatter of suitcases will echo loudly once again this holiday season. airports from all over Spain. This mask It resists as the sole reminder of an epidemic that has paralyzed the world and minimized air traffic. Two years later, airlines have recovered nearly all of their operations, revenues are recovering, and the workers who made it possible are eager to get a slice of the pie—as in nearly all industries. calls strike accumulated around Christmas, New Year’s Eve Y kingsIt relates to different low-cost airlines such as flying, ryanair anyone Air Nostrum and threatens the vacation of thousands of travelers. The different sources referenced for this report do not predict major events, but neither do they exclude specific issues.
In 2019, the last year of the ‘old normalization’ between December and January, a total of 34.8 million passengers passed through Turkey’s airports. aena, about 12% of all year’s air traffic. “In general, airlines lose money in the winter and do so in the summer. January and November are the lowest traffic months and start to recover from March to the strongest months, July and August.” economics at the University of Barcelona Xavier Fageda.
In the coming weeks, cabin crew and pilots from different companies are calling for protests. While the causes of each conflict are unique, the common denominator is that employees now demand a pay rise as the covid storm eases and the rise in prices lowers their purchasing power. According to forecasts from the International Air Transport Association (IATA), airlines will return to profits in 2023 with around 4,500 million euros in profits across the entire industry and around 4,000 million passengers carried worldwide.
Inside El Prat airport The conflict that has caused the most distortion in recent weeks is that of Vueling, the company that carries the most passengers. So far, about 10% of weekend flights don’t depart. Basically, Vueling is preemptively canceling all flights that are not covered by the minimum services set by the Ministry of Transport. Since November and so far total 1,424 flights canceled according to union Backgammonstrike organizer. This increases delays from both strikes and daily delays.
The factory is targeting a 21% pay rise from 2022 to 2025, and the airline says it won’t negotiate as long as there’s a strike called. “We don’t want anything different from what the group agreed with the Iberia pilots,” they say of Stavla. Between 2022 and 2023, pilots’ salaries will increase by 10%, as agreed by the parties in October. “Airlines have always had pretty tight profit margins, and now the increase in fuel and CO2 generation fees have increased even more. sufficiency and companies are very resistant to increasing their costs to avoid leaving a margin to their competitors,” says Fageda.
Another airline with internal conflicts is Air Nostrum, but those with registered strikes here pilots. As in the case of the Vueling crew, they demand better wages for their new collective agreements. This airline weighs less than the first, but according to Aena data, 4% of all passengers flying in Spain do so with Air Nostrum. These are the two airline employee conflicts that, to date, show the most disturbing signs on the set dates of Christmas.
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Ryanair’s name is one of the regulars on the list of companies included. business disputes they are also there during the holidays and in the winter of 2022. Here is the conflict with the unions TO USE Y sitpla It comes from afar and the Irish management refrains from relying on Spanish labor laws and conditions. The centers are demanding, on the one hand, to recognize a package of basic benefits, such as the minimum holidays stipulated in the Labor Law.
His other demand is the reinstatement of all workers fired in the last year of the protests. According to union calculations, 39 people were expelled, including the protest’s two main union leaders. Ryanair denies these layoffs are linked to union activities and claims it is a “breach of contract”. Cases are in court and added six performances between labor inspection He identified five serious crimes and one crime in Barcelona, So seriousFor violating the right to strike, according to the report reached by El Periódico de Catalunya from the Prensa Ibérica group.
The conflict at Ryanair has been raging since before the summer, and despite the official announcement of strikes, there are currently few incidents between minimal service and low monitoring. At the expense of whether or not power plants are turned on on the most important days of these holidays.
Where protests are disabled is where they can cause the greatest contrition: the employees of the company. aena, airport manager. And the shock wave can go beyond a particular airline and make things unpredictable. The CCOO threatened strikes and eventually agreed to take back a productivity bonus that had not been collected since the outbreak of Covid.