tails more than three hours The registrations recorded in the last weeks at the main airports in Portugal are not finished yet. In addition to the lack of personnel at passport control, which was identified at the beginning of the summer, which forced the Portuguese Government to approve a contingency plan with troop reinforcements, now strikes summoned Between 19 and 21 August A high level of commitment to the strike planned by workers, including aircraft maintenance technicians, by civil aviation troops will result in foreseeable delays and cancellations. hundreds of flights.
In case the unions cannot come to an agreement with the company Portugal airports (ANA) prior to this date, changes in flights will affect the country’s main destinations, among them. Lisbon, Porto and Faroas well as the archipelago From Madeira and the Azores. It is a situation that worries the hotel management, which is upset by the events detected in the last weeks at Portugal’s main airports. sees full recovery The tourism industry this season after two years of pandemic.
The president of the Algarve Association of Hotels and Tourist Businesses (AHETA) will harm the industry.. “To call a strike at the peak of tourism activity, regardless of the defense of workers’ interests, ignoring the real interests of the country. We are currently trying to recover from an activity that has been murdered in the last two years,” he reassures this newspaper by e-mail. “I hope common sense prevails and everything develops normally.”
Air transport workers are demanding urgent staffing at a time when labor shortages are strongly affecting many economic sectors in the country. “We are facing a inhumane overload With a lack of available human resources, airport operations and relief operations staff, as well as maintenance technicians,” the unions said in a statement this week. Workers also claim salary improvements after confirming that the company’s profit has been recovered after the pandemic.
The shortage of workers also affects the tourism industry. According to the latest calculations by the Portuguese Government, the country currently needs. about 50,000 workers in restaurants and hotels. A labor shortage that the manager aims to solve with the arrival of foreign workers, mostly from Portuguese-speaking countries.