Iberia pilots continue strike for second day
11/07/2006 - 08:20:17Pilots at Spanish airline Iberia said they were continuing their strike and that the company had offered them nothing new at their last meeting.
In a release, the pilots union SEPLA said Spain’s largest airline didn’t send any top officials to a meeting late yesterday and “refused to budge in its position”.
Earlier yesterday, Iberia had said it would deliver at the meeting a document that guaranteed in writing the jobs of all its pilots.
Iberia was forced to cancel 220 flights yesterday and an average of 240 a day would be scrapped for the rest of the week.
Spain’s flagship carrier has calculated that the stoppage will cost Iberia €35m in lost revenue.
