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As the latest wave of pilot strikes gets underway, Air Europa has been forced to cancel 14 flights from Spain on Monday May 22, although affected customers have been offered the options of changing their date or destination or receiving a voucher for the original ticket amount.

 

With the row over wages and working conditions raging on, the Spanish Union of Airline Pilots (Sepla) has summoned its staff to a new round of work stoppages that will impact air travel on May 22, 23, 25, 26, 29 and 30 and again on June 1 and 2.

 

The first barrage of strikes held at the beginning of the month resulted in 68 axed Air Europa flights.

 

At the moment, it looks like the eight new days of protests will result in 114 cancelled flights. The national routes are the most affected, with trips between Madrid and Bilbao, La Coruña, Palma de Mallorca, Vigo and Malaga all axed but international flights to Rome, Milan, Paris, Porto and Lisbon have also been cancelled, as has the regular Barcelona-Palma de Mallorca route.

 

Given the advance notice of the industrial action, Air Europa has given affected customers a number of options:

 

 

There is some good news though as representatives of Air Europa cabin crew have reached an agreement with the carrier to increase salaries by 11.93% over the next three years, hopefully stemming any further strike action.

 

Meanwhile, Air Nostrum pilots are entering their twenty-fifth day of industrial action since February 27, work stoppages that impact all of the airline’s Spanish bases.

 

 

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