Ministry of Public Works establishes minimum services for Air Europa pilot strike

These services seek to combine the general interest of citizens and, in particular, their mobility needs, with the right to strike of the group of workers.

The minimum services are as follows:

a) All services with a scheduled departure time prior to the start of the strike but with an arrival time scheduled during the course of the strike.

b) 100% of the airline's domestic flights on each route with an airport in the Canary Islands, Balearic Islands or Melilla.

c) 50% (rounded up) of the airline's flights, on each route with Spanish mainland cities, where alternative means of public transport means travelling 500 kilometres or more, or with a travel time in excess of five hours.

d) 25% (rounded up) of the airline's flights on each route with Spanish mainland cities, where alternative means of public transport means travelling less than 500 kilometres, or with a travel time below five hours.

e) 50% (rounded up) of the airline's flights on each route with foreign cities.

f) As the case may be, scheduled flights for the transportation of universal postal services or with perishable goods, when these flights take place on planes solely engaged in cargo shipments.

g) Those technical positioning operations and other operations such as the movement of the crew needed to effectively carry out air transport services deemed to be essential, and on all of the days immediately following these operations.

It is furthermore established that the airline Air Europa must adopt such measures as are necessary to guarantee that these essential services are provided under the standard conditions of the service, maintaining, to that end, such pilots as are strictly necessary for each period affected by strike action, ensuring the safety of operations at all times.

Moreover, the airline must adopt all the measures necessary to strictly and rigorously guarantee the rights of passengers affected by the strike action, in particular, those established in Regulation No. 261/2004, of the European Parliament and of the Council, of 11 February 2004.