On the third day of the strike, TAP continues to hold 70% of flights – publico

                 

                         
                     

                         

                 

 
                         

In the early hours of Sunday, TAP kept to hold about 70% of connections planned by the airline for this Sunday. The percentage of cancellations continues on the same Saturday values, said the PUBLIC spokesman of the Portuguese operator, André Serpa Soares, based on updated data until 8am.

                     

                          The carrier led by Fernando Pinto will only make a more detailed balance around 13h, not adding to already which the absolute number of canceled bonds and met routes. Unknown is the number of pilots who joined the stoppage or who performed the work, request for information that the company did not reply.

When PUBLIC, the spokesman TAP said that from 0h to Sunday 8am there have been “the same trend of recent days”, with about 30% of canceled flights. The impact of the strike continues to have “higher incidence in Porto, where the operation is largely ensured by Portugalia”, where membership of the riders to the shutdown has been greater, said André Serpa Soares.

In the first two of the ten days of the strike, the tone of contention between the Union of Civil Aviation Pilots (SPAC), which called the strike, and administration remained accessible.

If on Friday the finance minister, António Pires de Lima, accused the SPAC to act radically and said there was “nothing to negotiate” after last minute negotiations on Thursday night ultimately have no effect on Saturday it was the turn of the union raise the tone. A statement of the SPAC management, pilots accused the government of making “propaganda” when the Transport Secretary of State spoke in a foreclosure scenario.

“The SPAC launches alert workers of TAP and the Portuguese to be prepared to pay the hole is VEM [the current M & E Brazil], as the profitable activity of TAP Group, air transportation, will be delivered tassel private, “he says the union, referring to the group’s maintenance business in Brazil, purchased in 2006 to the former Varig together with Geocapital and where TAP is now the sole shareholder.

Citing the findings of a report of Parpública (the management of state shareholdings), the SPAC says “enough to close the VEM Government to restructure TAP, thus avoiding redundancies in Portugal.” For the union, “the threat of closure of TAP are just political propaganda and confirm that the Government’s intention is not to save the TAP but vindicating destroy the power of the unions, in particular the SPAC.”

The economy minister said on Friday, the 1st day of downtime, to close the door to negotiation, noting that the Government had shown the day before opening to go “to meet some pretensions” of pilots, who did not specify. And then made an appeal: “What I want is to continue to work and, if possible, to increase the number of pilots and flights. Even in short courses routes, where the incidence of strike is greater, I appeal to the pilots to see the attitude of his colleagues. It is important for the country the planes lift flight. “