The second day of the easyJet cabin crew strike in Spain on Thursday June 26th has so far resulted in 62 flight cancellations, according to the first update.
Sixty-two easyJet flights to and from Spain have been cancelled on the second of a three-day strike by the airline’s Spain-based cabin crew workers.
This is the same number of cancelled flights as on Wednesday, and it affects the same four airports in Spain: Palma de Mallorca, Barcelona, Málaga, and Alicante.
Departures and arrivals from Mallorca’s Palma airport are the most affected by the protests, with 26 cancellations to and from Geneva, Zurich, Berlin, London, Gatwick, Lyon, Milan-Malpensa, Athens, Porto, Paris-Charles de Gaulle, Naples, Basel, and Prague.
There are 18 flights that will not depart or arrive at Barcelona’s El Prat airport, corresponding to connections with Basel, Geneva, London, Berlin, Bristol, Lisbon and Nice.
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As on the previous day, 10 flights from Málaga Airport, flight connections to and from Geneva, Basel, London, and Bristol.
Another 8 flights to and from Alicante Airport to Athens, Basel, Nantes and Nice will not take off either.
That takes the total number of cancelled flights so far to 162. A third day of strike is scheduled for Friday June 27th.
The stoppages have been organised by USO, a workers’ union representing easyJet’s staff in Spain.
They’re demanding the management of the low-cost carrier increase the wages of their cabin crew which are based in Spain, which are currently the lowest in Europe.
“While our base salary is €14,067 per year, our European colleagues earn from 29 percent more in Portugal to over 200 percent more in Switzerland,” said Pier Luigi Copello, USO’s general secretary at easyJet.
“Therefore, we demand equal pay with other European bases. We’re not asking for privileges, we’re asking for what’s fair.”
USO has also criticised the fact that easyJet flight attendants are on nine-month temporary contracts, which adds to their precariousness in four cities with some of the highest living costs in Spain.
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