Minimal services for TAP Blow cover Portuguese-speaking islands and countries

TheThus, according to the document posted on the ECOSOC website, the arbitral tribunal decided that three daily flights and return flights to the Azores, “two flights to Ponta Delgada and one to Terceira” and “two daily flights to and from the Autonomous Community of Madeira” should be guaranteed.

For the remaining process, the referee scheduled the return flight on each day of the strike to: Angola, Brazil (Sao Paulo), France, Belgium, Luxembourg, United Kingdom, Germany and Switzerland.

The document also states that a one-way trip will have to be taken for the duration of the strike to Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique and Cape Verde.

Finally, other types of flights, such as military flights, must be guaranteed by security and emergency situations and by the state.

He emphasized that “other services for these trips must be guaranteed, that is, assistance, reservation and services” upon request,” specifying that union representatives must identify “workers charged with this obligation,” and if this does not happen, it will be up to the employers.

TAP said on November 23 that it would cancel 360 flights on December 8 and 9, the days of the cabin crew’s strike, affecting some 50,000 passengers and losing eight million euros in revenue.

🇧🇷[O sindicato] He decided to hold the assembly on December 6, two days before the strike. […] Whatever the federation decides to do, and because of the size of the TAP, it will be too late to do something properly organized. That is why we made the decision to cancel 360 flights, on December 8 and 9,” said TAP CEO Christine Ormeyer-Widener at a press conference at the company’s headquarters.

The TAP crew would go on strike on December 8 and 9, called by the National Civil Aviation Personnel Union (SNPVAC), citing “discontent, mutiny, and distress” among workers as reasons.

TAP and the unions are in negotiations to revise the Company Agreement (AE), within the scope of the restructuring plan.

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