Madrid and Tenerife airports on strike
Friday, August 8, 2014 @ 10:46 AM
STAFF at Madrid's Adolfo Suárez airport will be on strike from August 15 to 17, coinciding with the bank holiday across Spain on the Friday, over plans to privatise the airline governing body AENA.
The strike will affect the work of operational security staff including firefighters, doctors, police and general personal attention employees, who will down tools between 15.00hrs and 20.00hrs on Friday and then from 07.00hrs to 11.00hrs and 20.00hrs to 23.00hrs on Saturday and Sunday.
Strikes will affect other airports in Spain including Ibiza, Málaga-Costa del Sol, Pamplona and San Sebastián on different dates, which have yet to be confirmed.
Tenerife North and Tenerife South airports will be hit by strikes from August 27 to 30 inclusive.
The General Workers' Commission for AENA staff believes privatising the airports governing body will lead to a general increase in terminal taxes and that this will lead to a rise in the cost of flight tickets, causing tourists to go elsewhere as travel to Spain becomes more expensive than to other countries – despite a general agreement with airlines using Spanish airports to freeze taxes until 2018.
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