Nonetheless, union representatives are crucial of the airline for “once more failing in its relationship with its workers”, referring to the prevailing dispute with cabin crew that impacts the three easyJet bases in Spain – Barcelona, Malaga and Palma.

The negotiations began final 12 months. The present settlement expired on the finish of February however has been prolonged. Sepla says that, after greater than seven months and 5 conferences, it has solely obtained two proposals and that these don’t meet pilot calls for.

The union stresses that the pilots have “all the time proven a accountable perspective and have tried to achieve agreements with the corporate”. As a sign of this, Sepla attracts consideration to the truth that, through the worst interval of the pandemic, there was settlement on a two-year wage freeze and a short lived discount of eight per cent of the essential wage.