The Ryanair strike returns with eight flights canceled in El Prat

BarcelonaThe third round of strikes by Ryanair cabin crew in Spain will be the longest in the airline’s history. The 24-hour stoppages called by the USO union resumed this Monday and will be repeated every week from Monday to Thursday until January 7, 2023. The first day in the resumption of this labor conflict has closed with eight flights canceled at El Prat airport and 38 delayed connections, although in the latter it is more difficult to attribute the strike as a determining cause. The Catalan aerodrome has been the most affected by the network by far. In the State as a whole, the company low cost it has had to cancel 10 planned routes and suffered 233 flight delays.

“The forecast is that the impact will be minimal”, admitted in his assessment USO’s communication secretary at Ryanair, Pau Ibarzábal. The union has forcefully criticized the minimum services decreed by the Ministry of Transport for stoppages, which reach 85%, which it considers “abusive” and which “almost violate the right to strike”. In addition, Ibarzábal recalled that Ryanair has once again used one of its pressure tools to minimize the impact of the call: sending pressure letters to employees who are on medical leave to force them to rejoin. USO has also said it will fight in court to force the airline to reinstate the 11 workers who were laid off during the June and July strikes. “We ask that the company continue to negotiate an agreement”, claimed the trade unionist, who trusts in this long work stoppage as a “pressure measure” for the management to give in.

Ryanair minimizes the impact

For its part, Ryanair has insisted that it expects “minimum disruption” due to the strike, “as was already reflected in the months of June and July”. The Irish company has again noted the agreement reached with CCOO to improve staff conditions, which was agreed outside of the negotiations they were already having with USO. “The recent USO-Sitcpla strikes have had little support and minimal if any effect on Ryanair flights. Ryanair operates over 3,000 flights a day (almost 100,000 a month) and less than l “1% have been affected by the strikes,” the company said in a statement.

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