10/28/2020 11:24 AM
Clarín.com
Society
Updated 10/28/2020 11:46 AM
Around a hundred workers from the Flybondi company met this Wednesday in Plaza de Mayo to
demand the opening of the El Palomar airport
, following the decision of the Regulatory Body of the Airport System to only enable Ezeiza for local flights.
The call was made by the Flybondi Aeronautical Workers Association (ATAF) for 10 in the morning in front of the Casa Rosada.
The intention of the protesters is to mobilize at noon to the Congress of the Nation.
With signs such as
"No to the closure of El Palomar"
or
"The airport belongs to the people"
, the workers of the low cost airline responded thus to the bid between the owners of the company and the Government for the decision to enable only Ezeiza as a metropolitan airport in the reactivation of flights.
"We hope that President Alberto Fernández hears the claim of the workers who
only want to keep flying and support their families,
" wrote the ATAF account on Twitter, which groups and represents all Flybondi aeronautical workers for the defense of their interests. legal, union and social.
The protest of the Flybondi workers in Plaza de Mayo.
Photo Guillermo Rodríguez Adami.
According to the ORSNA decision, the two low cost airlines that have been using El Palomar,
Flybondi and JetSmart,
should move their entire operation to the Ezeiza airport to be able to carry out domestic flights, as Aerolineas Argentinas began to do so from Thursday of the week pass.
Faced with the decision to block the airport located in the Northwest area of Greater Buenos Aires, Flybondi spoke harshly against the Government and clarified that it will not accept to operate from the Ezeiza international airport.
"Although the airline has not yet been officially notified nor is any detail known about the scope of this measure on the El Palomar International Airport, it
is understood that it would point to it not continuing to operate
for any type of regular passenger air transport operations , thus causing the transfer of the company's operations to Ezeiza, "said the aviation firm.
And he added: "Flybondi expresses its most absolute rejection of this decision,
whose arguments are fully objectionable and malicious
; but what is even more serious, is that it reveals the regulatory mismanagement and the total absence of planning and coordination, generating two clear victims: passengers and workers ".
The flyer calling for the protest on Wednesday.
"His decision
shows the lack of respect for the passengers
who purchased tickets to fly from El Palomar and who until the last moment do not know where their flight will depart from, added to the thousands of passengers who can only travel by plane if they do so from an airport to that can be reached by public transport. It is also very striking that in this context of economic complexity and deep crisis in the industry, thousands of jobs are put at risk, "he concluded.
For its part, JetSmart, the other low cost company that will not be able to fly from El Palomar, announced instead that it will move its service to Ezeiza, with a resumption of its flights in early November.
"We are always
willing and open to follow the country's regulatory framework
, which now implies resuming operations from Ezeiza, but we soon hope that the JetSmart bases, both El Palomar and Aeroparque, will be opened so that the airline can move its operations towards those airports, "reported the airline that depends on the US fund Indigo Partners.
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