The government of Javier Milei expressed on Tuesday its rejection of the strikes by air traffic controllers announced for the holidays. Through the Argentine air traffic control company, which reports to the Ministry of Transport, she considered the violent measure to be “illegitimate” and warned that it would result in a… due to a domino effect Impact on flights greater than announced.
The company expressed “its deep disagreement with the undue coercive measures announced by the Association of Technicians and Employees of Air Navigation Protection and Safety (ATEPSA).”
“They want to disrupt an essential service guaranteed by law by interrupting the normal development of passenger air traffic in the middle of the year-end holiday season, when flights are vital for hundreds of thousands of Argentines,” says the text, highlighting the inconvenience at a sensitive time of the year.
ATEPSA had announced a five-day force response schedule, until December 29thwith specific time windows that affect the operation of passenger flights. The first affected day will be this Wednesday, in the morning.
For the Argentine air traffic control company “again the union caste “Turn its back on thousands of Argentines and take measures that demonstrate a clear intention to restrict freedoms and disrupt the normal development of flight operations at the beginning of the high season and in the days just before the holidays.”
In this sense, the transport company claimed that “the aim is obvious and political”.
“It should be remembered that they also tried to carry out violent measures during the winter holidays and now they are trying to take Argentines hostage in the last days of the year,” he stressed.
In addition, he recalled that there were numerous strikes in November that affected cargo flights.
“In an attempt to cause as much damage as possible, an attempt was made to paralyze for 30 days all personnel training and all basic technical tasks to maintain the technological infrastructure essential to air traffic control services,” the statement said.
“The political intent and intent to cause harm is revealed because at the beginning of these union actions, the implementation of the joint agreement between the union and the company was underway, which was only finalized in December,” the company later emphasized.
It then concluded that the previous and announced measures “are illegitimate because the union argument of non-compliance is false as the agreement was fulfilled as agreed”.
At the end, the letter again criticized the union’s leadership for being “blinded” by its “partisan political goals.”
The government highlighted the impact of the measure on the sector. Although unions have said it will impact launches at pre-determined time slots, it is understood the impact will be general in nature and there could be delays for the rest of the day.
“The measures affect not only them, but also the entire air route,” said the Ministry of Transport. And they developed how that Domino effect that they foresee it.
“A flight that does not depart within the time window established by the strike will not be able to carry out its scheduled arrival, which will also affect its return flight and therefore all subsequent flight operations,” they explained.
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