TAP Portugal: Cabin crew strike from 25 to 31 January

the cabin crew from TAP Portuguese Airlines Confirmed its intention to conduct a Seven days strike Starting next Wednesday from 25 to 31 January 2023.

For lack of agreement with management about a New business agreementThe vast majority of the nearly 1,000 flight attendants who gathered on Thursday in a general assembly decided to continue this social movement, which began in December with a two-day strike that caused 360 flight cancellations and eight million euros in losses due to Portuguese Airlines.

Negotiations aimed at avoiding a new blow wereReasonably good“But the staff is still very upset with the management,” Ricardo Pinaroa, president of the National Civil Aviation Employees Union, explained before the cabin crew voted.

While it has to implement a restructuring plan that includes significant wage cuts, Portugal’s TAP Airlines has found itself at the center of controversy, TAPgate “, which shook its administration and caused a series of resignations in the Portuguese government. Former Treasury Secretary Alexandra Rees has left the airline’s board with A.J End of service bonus of 500,000 eurosShortly before he became the head of the public company NAV responsible for air traffic control and then joined the government team as foreign minister in the Ministry of Finance.