The president of TAP, Fernando Pinto, said Tuesday that the company’s main task after the pilots strike is readjust “to its proper dimension” considering that the work “is indispensable” and independent privatization .
“Unfortunately, the instability we have experienced made us lose ground in the market, so our main task in the immediate, undergoes adjust the company to its proper dimension,” said Fernando Pinto in a message to employees that the agency Lusa had access, without explaining how this will be done.
The president of the airline, this adjustment will allow the “reconstruction [TAP] sound and the subsequent preparation for a new cycle growth “, considering that this work” is essential, regardless of the ongoing privatization process. “
Fernando Pinto considers that” in the short term will be possible to build a plan that meets current needs, which translates into a simple expression: to step back to then take two forward. ” The president of TAP also said that the working group set up to develop this plan “will soon present its proposals.”
On Monday, Secretary of State for Transport, Sérgio Monteiro, announced that TAP will present next week a plan to improve the financial situation of TAP, who said he was more fragile after ten days of strike of the company’s pilots and Portugalia.
“The strike 1-10 May put us again in the spotlight for all the wrong reasons, affecting the company’s image and its credibility, “lamented Fernando Pinto, considering that” this time also the image of his own class of pilots was affected by both the strike itself as by some statements by union representatives, resulting unfair because the pilots of TAP are unequivocally the best industry professionals. “
Still, the responsible distinguished what is” the exercise of constitutional rights “of using a weapon like the strike” to achieve objectives that we know in advance that the company can not meet. ” Fernando Pinto admits that the strike forced a “tremendous effort to minimize the negative consequences for customers,” and praises the work of “many workers”, pilots (who did not strike), cabin crew and ground.
“The difficult situation the company requires to stop the signs of instability that continue to be given to the market, focusing on all the things first: to safeguard the future of TAP,” he argues, adding that this instability ” causes direct damage, dramatically affects the financial resources, harms the image consumes energy, diverting attention of the objectives, “he writes.
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