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The cabin crew of the low-cost airline Ryanair wants to strike for a further 12 days in July for better working conditions. The strikes were scheduled for the days between July 12th and 15th, 18th and 21st, and July 25th and 28th, the responsible Spanish unions USO and Sitcpla announced on Saturday. Numerous airports are affected by the Ryanair strikes: in addition to Madrid, Barcelona and Mallorca, Mlaga, Seville, Alicante, Valencia, Girona, Ibiza and Santiago de Compostela.

Ryanair cabin crew went on strike in Spain at the end of June and also between Thursday and Saturday. The Irish airline “disobeys court rulings and the law and uses fear, coercion and threats against its workers,” the USO said. Minister of Labor Yolanda Daz should intervene.

The cabin crew of the competitor airline easyJet also laid down work in Spain for a total of nine days between the end of June and the end of July – this weekend (between Friday and Sunday) and between the 15th and 17th and between the 29th and 29th of June .and the 31st of July. In the case of the British airline, the cabin crew are demanding significantly higher salaries and a limitation on flight times, as is the case in other countries.

On Saturday, 15 flights across Spain were canceled by the afternoon due to the strikes, ten connections from Ryanair and five from easyJet, as reported by the state television broadcaster RTVE, citing the authorities. In addition, there were around 200 delays. In Mallorca there were initially no failures on Saturday.

Due to the maintenance of so-called “minimum services” required by Spanish legislation during strikes, only a (often relatively small) part of the flights may be cancelled. In the case of the Ryanair strikes, for example, the Ministry of Transport in Madrid decided that, depending on the airport, between 73 percent (Alicante and Palma de Mallorca) and 82 percent (Ibiza) of all scheduled flights had to be completed on the days of the strike.

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