Irish holidaymakers traveling to spain may face serious disruption this month if a planned strike by pilots at the Spanish airline Iberia goes ahead.
An airline spokesperson told
ireland.com
not all flights will be grounded but that there will be some cancellations for Irish tourists if the strike goes ahead.
Flights on every Tuesday in July except the 31st and every Monday in August have been targeted in the proposed action.
Over a quarter of the airline's scheduled flights were grounded this morning after talks between pilots and the airline were abandoned yesterday.
About 20 per cent of scheduled domestic flights were cancelled, and 33 per cent of flights to European destinations were grounded, an Iberia spokesperson said.
There are no further talks scheduled between the two sides at this time.
Pilots have threatened to call even more strikes beyond those already set for the peak summer season, and the threat of possible similar action at national airport authority AENA could compound the matter.
AENA management and unions are meeting later today, but a AENA spokesperson said he was confident an agreement would be reached shortly.
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