The union that represents the Air traffic controllers iThis Wednesday it started at 8 a.m December 17thA arrest This will affect the launches of Domestic flights in all airport terminals in the national territory and lasts three hours until 11 a.m. A total of 100,000 passengers will suffer setbacks due to the paralysis of activities during the five days of protests ending on Monday, December 29.
From the union leadership of the Association of Air Navigation Protection and Safety Technicians and Employees, they claim that there are “unfulfilled salary and employment contracts that were signed after the conclusion of joint negotiations more than three months ago.”
Air traffic controllers’ strike: dates of the measures, national and international flights affected and extent of the conflict
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The workers’ actions gathered ATEPSAwould be extended until next week, with new “staggered disruptions” to air service across the country.
The schedule of National air traffic controller strike He specified that the measure would only change aircraft take-offs, that is, it would limit permits for aircraft on the ground. Likewise, flight plans will not be received or transmitted during the period in which the suspension of the activity will take place.
On which days and at what times will there be an air traffic controller strike?
–Wednesday, December 17th, from 8:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m: Flights to domestic destinations have been suspended at all airports in the country.
–Thursday, December 18th, from 4 p.m. to 7 p.ms: Flights to domestic destinations suspended at all airports in the country.
–Tuesday, December 23rd, from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m: Flights to domestic destinations have been suspended at all airports in the country.
–Saturday, December 27th, from 2 p.m. to 5 p.ms: Flights to international destinations suspended at all airports in the country.
–Monday, December 29th, from 8:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m: All service flights, domestic and international, suspended at all airports in the country.
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Through an institutional declaration of ATEPSA that “all aviation operations ultimately declared as an emergency are exempt from the measure, such as those providing health, humanitarian, government and/or search and rescue services.”
Faced with this conflict scenario, the intervening actors are: the nation’s Ministry of Labor, the Argentine air traffic control company (EANA) And ATEPSAthey will a Meeting today from 10 a.m to negotiate and deactivate the level of violence.
EANA statement: “You intend to disrupt an essential service guaranteed by law in the middle of the year-end holiday season.”
Through an official press release, EANA expressed its strong rejection of the “unacceptable forceful measures” announced by ATEPSA.
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The Argentine air traffic control company said: “They intend to disrupt an essential service guaranteed by law and disrupt the normal development of passenger air traffic in the middle of the year-end holidays.”
“Although the announced schedule supposedly only concerns aircraft take-offs, the measures affect not only these, but also the entire air route,” they emphasized EANA through institutional relief.
In this sense, they explained that “a flight that does not take off within the time window established by the strike will not be able to keep its scheduled arrival, which will also affect its return flight and therefore all subsequent flight operations.”
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