Cabin crew at Portugal's TAP [RIC:RIC:TAPA.UL] airline have called off a strike that would have forced the cancellation of 1,316 flights between Jan. 25-31 after reaching an agreement with the airline, the SNPVAC union said on Monday.
"There was an agreement but there is still a lot of dissatisfaction," union president Ricardo Penarroias told reporters after a general assembly.Penarroias said TAP met 12 and a half of the union's 14 demands. According to him the airline failed to improve job contracts he described as "precarious" and did not add an additional crew member on long-haul flights.
"Problems did not disappear just because there was an agreement ... at the slightest slip we will return to the fight," Penarroias said.TAP said on Thursday that as a result of the strike they would have to cancel, affecting nearly 160,000 passengers and costing them about 48 million euros in revenue.
The state-owned airline is under an EU-approved 3.2 billion euro bailout plan, which included the reduction of its fleet, the cutting of more than 2,900 jobs and lowering most workers' wages by up to 25%., forcing the cancellation of hundreds of flights and affecting thousands of passengers just before the holiday season.
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