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“We have thus seen TAP’s top management reiterate our willingness to immediately sign a company agreement similar to that of our counterpart, so that TAP has conditions strictly equal to those of the highly praised Lufthansa and so that you Ministers and administrators no longer they can use the TAP pilots as a scapegoat to justify the ills of the company ”, says the letter to which Lusa had access.
According to SPAC, “the whole country listened to the Minister responsible for [o ministro das Infraestruturas e da Habitação, Pedro Nuno Santos], to say that TAP is at a competitive disadvantage because its pilots earn more and are more per plane than pilots of similar companies ”.
The union representing the aircraft carrier pilots considers that “it is true that these statements were made in consultation with the president [Miguel Frasquilho] CEO of TAP [Ramiro Sequeira]”, which” did not deny or correct these claims, a ruling that the pilots describe as very serious in terms of leadership. “
Recalling that Lufthansa and its pilots ended up renegotiating their company agreement on December 23, “guaranteeing important advantages for both parties”, the union reiterates its willingness to sign an identical agreement.
It would be incomprehensible if TAP does not take advantage of this golden opportunity to get rid of the so-called excessive profits of its pilots, so we strongly urge you to agree and sign with SPAC an equal company agreement and conditions identical to those negotiated throughout. and agreed (yes, agreed) between Lufthansa and the pilots union (Vereinigung Cockpit), “the letter says.
According to the Efe agency, the Lufthansa airline and the Vereinigung Cockpit (VC) union reached an agreement that there will be no layoffs for financial reasons until March 2022, under a collective agreement adapted to the crisis.
On the other hand, the company can reduce the hours with the subsequent salary adjustment and freeze the increases.
These measures will apply to the approximately 5,000 pilots from Lufthansa, Lufthansa Cargo, Lufthansa Aviation Training and part of Germanwings.
According to the VC union, quoted by Efe, the “consortium thus manages to cut expenses by more than 450 million euros, which in addition to the cuts already applied for this year, represents a saving of more than 600 million euros until the end of March 2022 “.
