Transport, Mobility and Urban Agenda sets the minimum services for the Ryanair Cabin Crew Strike

The Ministry of Transport, Mobility and Urban Agenda (Mitma) has informed Ryanair, Aena, Enaire and the convening unions, USO-STA and Sitcpla, of the minimum services corresponding to the strike call for Cabin Crew Members (TCP) for the coming months, from 8 August 2022 to 7 January 2023, both included, during which the strike days will take place weekly from Monday to Thursday.

These essential services aim to reconcile the general interests of citizens, and their mobility needs in particular, with the right to strike by this group of workers. The resolution on minimum services has also been published on the Ministry's website.

Ryanair is the company that transports the most passengers in the Spanish market, with an offer that exceeded 650 routes from Spain in 2021. According to information provided by the company itself, around 1,600 workers make up the group of Cabin Crew Members (TCP) at the company's bases in Spain.

The minimum services decreed are those resulting from applying the following criteria to public transport air services operated by Ryanair (with cabin crew from Ryanair, Crewlink and Workforce), with origin or destination from the airports of Madrid, Malaga, Barcelona, Alicante, Seville, Palma de Mallorca, Valencia, Girona, Santiago de Compostela and Ibiza:

• The following percentages, approximating by excess, of the carrier's services for each domestic route to/from non-mainland territories, for each of the airports indicated. Given the long strike period, the percentages are fixed for each month and for the Christmas period.

• The following percentages, approximating by excess, of the air carrier's services for each route with Spanish mainland and foreign cities, whose alternative means of public transport means a journey time of five hours or more, for each of the airports indicated. Given the long strike period, the percentages are fixed for each month and for the Christmas period.

The following percentages, approximating by excess, of the air carrier's services for each route with Spanish mainland cities whose alternative means of public transport means a journey time of less than five hours, for the airport indicated:

For the other airports, should of this type be registered, the same protection as for the corresponding Barcelona airport applies.

• Those technical positioning operations and other operations such as the positioning of crews necessary for the effective performance of air transport services considered as essential, those operated between strike days and those after the end of the strike.
• Flights whose scheduled departure time is prior to the start of the strike and whose scheduled arrival is during the strike period.

Workers who have a permanent base at one of the workplaces where the strike is called shall be considered as workers legally called to strike, regardless of the place where they spend the night on the days when the strike is called.

With regard to the list of flights affected by these minimum services, it is up to Ryanair to establish the flights subject to the percentages of the minimum services resolution described above, for which it must adopt the necessary measures to ensure that they are provided while safeguarding the safety of all operations at all times.

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