Air Nostrum cancels 100 flights this Friday and Monday on the occasion of the strike of its pilots
Affected customers may choose to reimburse the ticket or for "relocation on other flights depending on availability"
Air Nostrum has canceled a hundred flights for the 23rd and 26th of this month due to the strike organized by the Sepla pilots' union, and the affected customers can be reimbursed for the tickets or relocated on flights or alternative dates .
For the strike on November 30, the company has announced that in the next few days it will make public the information about canceled flights through its website.
The minimum services include 100% of the flights with origin or destination in the Balearic Islands, Canary Islands and Melilla, the flights in Public Service Obligation in peninsular territories (AlmerÃa-Sevilla, Badajoz-Madrid and Badajoz-Barcelona), 28% of the flights between Spanish cities where the alternative is less than 5 hours and 42% for those that exceed 5 hours and for foreign cities.
According to information to EFE sources of the Sepla, this Thursday takes place a meeting between the union representatives and the direction of the airline, that this one has not confirmed at the moment. Air Nostrum has indicated that it has made the rates more flexible so that passengers on flights that do not cancel can change their dates if they prefer.
Customers who have purchased their tickets through iberia.com will receive a message from Iberia, the company for which Air Nostrum operates the affected flights, on the incident that has occurred. If you have purchased the tickets through a travel agency, you will be the one to contact the clients, and if you do not receive any notification, you can contact Serviberia or the travel agency to see the available alternatives, the company informs.
Air Nostrum claims to be sorry for the inconveniences caused to customers and appreciates their understanding of this situation, and ensures that it is doing everything possible to offer alternative solutions to affected customers.
The pilot union Sepla has called this strike to understand that the company is diverting production to other airlines of the same owners , putting at risk the future and working conditions.
Denounces that Air Nostrum is giving routes that it operates for Iberia Regional to other airlines like the Maltese MedOps, controlled in 51% by the own shareholders of the Valencian company, according to affirmed the past day 8 the union delegate Manuel Kings.
The owners of Air Nostrum created a year ago the investment group in International Airlines (ILAI) from which they hang, in addition to MedOps and Air Nostrum, airlines such as the Irish Hibernian (of which they control 100%), the Paraguayan Ampy (33 %) and Argentina's FlyEst (49%).
These companies are finally carrying out flights contracted by Iberia, which account for 75% of all production of Air Nostrum, which has already passed four aircraft to MedOps - which operates Iberia's regional routes in the Balearic Islands and those that connect the peninsula with this archipelago -, one to Hibernian and two turbohalics to Canary Fly (Binter), to which it subcontracts part of its production, according to Sepla.
From the direction of Air Nostrum they denied then "flatly the affirmations of the Sepla" and indicated that those declarations "must be framed in the present negotiation of the collective agreement", with meetings that "follow ahead in the next dates". EFE
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