The second of the four days of strike by Iberia's ground handling or ground handling services employees recorded an average turnout of 15.9% this Saturday until 6:30 p.m., the airline reported in its latest published update. The company said that normality is maintained at airports and flight on-time performance across the network is at 77%, a slightly lower figure compared to 88.6% the previous day. For their part, the CC OO and UGT unions have sought this Saturday a surveillance of 80% at all Spanish airports, always referring to the part of the workforce that does not belong to the minimum services.
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Regarding the luggage left on the ground at Barcelona airport yesterday Friday, Iberia has assured that it has already been transported by air and most of it is legalized and is on its way to its final destination. Union sources have pointed out that the ground handling strike this morning has already caused some delays in the departure of several flights at the Catalan airport due to incidents involving suitcases.
In the case of Bilbao, one of the airports with the most recorded incidents, all suitcases were also legalized after traveling by road on Friday afternoon. After local incidents involving suitcases were recorded in Gran Canaria this morning, which resulted in the first flights departing without suitcases, the airline assured that it is looking for the best solution to be able to send luggage to customers as quickly as possible . According to the UGT, a total of 750 suitcases were left unloaded at Spanish airports on the first day of the strike.
The Spanish Consumer Association (Asescon) encourages passengers who have problems with their luggage to lodge complaints themselves at the airports, since they are entitled to financial compensation for transported products that are urgent and necessary, provided they have an invoice confirming this demonstrates effort.
At some airports, 100 percent of employees receive the prescribed minimum benefits, but at others it is around 80 percent, according to the aircraft ground handling unions, for which around 8,000 people are involved. The handling subsidiary Iberia Airport Services.
The CC OO union considers the number of basic benefits to be met to be “abusive”, but points out that Friday's strikes were followed by “80% of the workforce” who are not tied to compliance with minimum benefits. In particular, USO reported Iberia to the Labor Inspectorate for not offering the requested information on flights protected by the minimum services agreed by the Ministry of Transport and on the employees assigned to them, due to a possible violation of freedom of association.
The four days of planned protests resulted in Iberia canceling 444 routes in advance – 270 by the airline itself, 64 by Iberia Express and 110 by Air Nostrum – a decision that affected around 45,000 passengers, more than 90% of whom were transferred there have booked another flight or received a refund for your ticket. Iberia's ground services subsidiary provides services to more than 90 airlines and operates in 29 Spanish airports where it offers this service.
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