“Due to union measures outside the company, We recommend that you reschedule your flight.. Flights will be affected from 12 noon on Friday 9/13 until 12 noon on Saturday 9/14,” the airline announced in a post via its official account on the X platform (formerly Twitter).
In this way, passengers will be able to reorganize their flights and, although they will be unable to travel on Friday and Saturday, They will not have to pay for the change of date.
Statement from Aerolíneas Argentinas
The strike at Aerolíneas Argentinas led by Pablo Biró (APLA, pilots) and Juan Pablo Brey (AAA, crew) caused 319 cancellations and will affect more than 37 thousand passengers, as confirmed by the company itself.
The company estimates that the economic cost of this measure will exceed 2.5 million dollars, due to the loss of sales and fines, compensation, accommodation, transfers, meals and other expenses resulting from direct damage to passengers.
Of the total number of people affected, some 28,000 had planned trips within the country, another 5,500 to regional destinations, and the remaining 3,500 flights to the Caribbean, the United States and Europe.
The statement said that since the announcement of the measure, the company has made every effort to modify its schedule in the most efficient way possible, within the restrictions imposed by the unions themselves, to mitigate the damage that this strike will cause to our passengers.
Javier Milei signed the decree to declare commercial aviation activity “essential” and limit aeronautical strikes
The President Javier Milei has already signed the decree declaring as “essential service” to the commercial aviation activity, with which it seeks to limit strikes and assemblies in the sector. In parallel, the aeronautical unions They called for a 24-hour strike starting this Friday at Aerolíneas Argentinas due to a wage disputeWhat implications will the regulatory change have?
The measure will regulate the provisions of the mega Decree 70/23 published in December of last year, weeks after the arrival of the libertarian to the Casa Rosada, in which the inclusion of the commercial aviation sector is enabled within the rating as “essential” for ensure coverage of the service and prevent paralysis due to forceful measures.
Source: Ambito
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