Ryanair, your strike cabin crew (TCP) is not impacting its flights two months after launch this Wednesday, and as a result, forecasts to carry 15% more passengers this summer than in the same period of 2019.
Since the start of the strike on June 24, the first of six days, then twelve more added, and finally, unions Organizers, USO and Sitcpla extended it until 7 January 2023 (Monday to Thursday, weekly), with 353 cancellations and 6,240 delays in Spain, according to the social section.
However, Ryanair’s Human Director, Darrell Hughes He told Efe that these disruptions were due to operational problems at some European airports after two pandemic years, affecting ground handling (“hand carrying”), traffic control or security filters, mainly due to staff shortages.
Although it is difficult for Ryanair to face a very difficult summer operationally in Europe, ” high demand We continue to grow at all airports and in the number of passengers.”
According to him, strikes by other airlines in Spain, such as easyJet or Iberia Express, do not affect Turkey. Recovery Tourism in our country continues to be very solid.
Ryanair hopes to fully recover its traffic by the end of the current fiscal year (March 2023). 165 million passengers (11% more than in 2019), 50 million in Spain (14% more than before the pandemic), but the level of uncertainty with the rise in fuel prices and inflation, among other things, does not allow you to have the same certainty about Benefits at this time.
because of rising fuel pricesairfare prices are rising, but this also means “a further gap over our competitors,” he added.
company that is 80% of the fuel is insured It’s cheaper through March 2023 and 30 percent for the next fiscal year, “it will continue to have the lowest prices of its competition,” he stressed.
He will negotiate with the “who wants”
Administrator, regarding his TCP’s strike in Spain, “very little support” by the collective and not to damage the company image.
USAGE and Sitcpla They confirm that tracking is very difficult to measure, as all flights are declared as minimum service, an endpoint the company denies, which depends on the percentage set by the Government, according to Hugues.
Hugues emphasized that the company will work to improve the conditions of its employees. “with whom are you ready to negotiate and reach an agreement.”
In this context, he recalled that the airline has been negotiating with USO and Sitcpla for four years, including eight months of professional negotiations. CHASM as an intermediary and failed to reach any agreement.
On the other hand, in a very short time with CCOO, “We were able to announce the agreement on May 29”“, which includes, among other measures, the company’s commitment to sign a full collective agreement before the end of October 2023, or a commitment to recruit directly and not through placement agencies.
In addition, he plans a salary increase of 1,000 euros per year from now on. 800 additional Euros per year From April 2023.
Current salaries of TCP at Ryanair in Spain Between 19.000 and 40.000 EurosIt is specified as fixed and variable part for audit positions.
But for USO and Sitcpla this 1,800 euros, “productivity bonus” That the TCP had before the pay cuts that the National Supreme Court ruled out.
agreement signed with CCOOHugues noted that only TCPs affiliated with this union can participate, but once an agreement is signed everything will be under his umbrella, with further measures added later regarding internal promotions or diets.
According to the manager, currently ” TO USE Y sitcpla they lose affiliates, CCOO gains them every day”.
Asked about more than 20 layoffs that have taken place Since the beginning of the protest, Hugues noted that none of them were in support of the strike, but the USO and Sitcpla encouraged crew members not to work on flights declared as minimum service.
The unions deny this and explain that what has happened is that the company intends to report minimum services during periods of employee digital disconnection, and given the exercise of this right, Ryanair interprets these as non-compliance and therefore non-compliance. most dismissal.
All these dismissals will be challenged in the social courts, the unions insisted, hoping that they would be nullified and that these colleagues would be reinstated as before. previous strikes at Ryanair.