Madrid — The cabin crew of the Portuguese airline TAP has called off a seven-day strike that was due to start on Wednesday.
A new proposal by management to improve working conditions was approved by a large majority at a general meeting of the SNPVAC flight attendants' union in Lisbon on Monday.
The strike planned for the period from January 25 to 31 will no longer take place, SNPVAC president Ricardo Penarroias told journalists.
"Both sides have made concessions," he said, as reported by the newspaper Público among others.
TAP had said before the agreement that the strike would lead to the cancellation of 1,316 flights and affect around 156,000 passengers. The costs caused by the walkout would amount to at least €48 million ($52 million). A two-day strike in December had already cost €8 million.
Founded in 1945, TAP is Portugal's largest airline and has about 6,600 employees - about 2,000 fewer than before the outbreak of the pandemic. The last time the company was in the black was in 2017. In 2020 and 2021, there were record losses of €1.2 billion and €1.6 billion respectively.
The left-wing government announced last year that it wanted to privatize the company again. The state took back control of TAP in 2020.
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