TAP Air Portugal has blocked off reservations for the day of the general strike (next Thursday, December 11) stressing that it will only be operating ‘minimum services’.
“We do not operate based on expectations, but based on the minimum services agreed between the company and the unions,” an official source (on the sidelines of the 50th APAVT National Congress in Macau) has told Jornal de Negócios.
As the paper points out ‘it is not possible to book flights to and from the country on the airline’s platform, which is attempting to avoid further aggravating the complicated situation expected at national airports’.
Last week, the National Union of Civil Aviation Flight Personnel (SNPVAC) approved joining the general strike. The Civil Aviation Pilots’ Union (SPAC) has scheduled an extraordinary general meeting for December 5, so that its member pilots can decide whether to join the strike.
The general strike on December 11 has been called by the CGTP and UGT trade union confederations in protest to the government’s draft bill to reform labour legislation. It will be the first strike to bring the two trade union confederations together since June 2013, when Portugal was under the “troika” (triumvirate of lenders) intervention.
Source: LUSA
