By this afternoon, last-ditch efforts to avert a threatened strike had failed, resulting in the cancellation of 400 flights. “Negotiations are social partners reaching out to each other to find a workable compromise. However, this time the AUA on-board works council and the VIDA trade union only put forward impossible maximum demands, which they insisted on at all costs, no matter how big the damage,” said Gunther Offner, head of the WKÖ aviation professional group. , described the union's boycott as a “reckless approach that will have dire consequences for thousands of commuters.”
“No one responsible for the future of the AUA can meet the demand for a 40 percent salary increase, because it would help the economic suicide of the AUA and endanger thousands of jobs throughout the entire service chain of Austrian aviation.” Offner refers to the consequences of the Vienna Aviation Center, which is still incalculable.
“50,000 frustrated and angry passengers, many families with school-age children unable to go on vacation as planned or stranded abroad, and more than 15 million euros in economic damage to AUA – both at the airport and affected service providers – are the dramatic consequences of this irresponsible act. Vida's social, societal and I wonder where the economic responsibility has gone,” Offner concluded.
(PWK119/ES)
