TAP managers have already begun receiving the new BMW hybrids that have caused so much controversy in recent days.
O CM it is known that a total of 29 machines were delivered. In addition, the contract that TAP is now terminating is limited to 79 cars instead of 50. This is due to the fact that 29 more BMW cars for managers need to be added to the 50 cars for TAP managers. Portugalia Airlines, an airline belonging to the TAP Group.
The first cars were delivered before public controversy erupted, prompting a chorus of criticism from the President of the Republic and the TAP unions. However, now they will have to be returned, as TAP has canceled the operation to upgrade the rolling stock.
The fact that TAP has already received almost three dozen vehicles confirms the information published this Saturday. CM that the carrier must pay damages to the fleet management company from which the vehicles were ordered. This is due to the fact that it is no longer just about canceling an order, but about returning cars that have already been used.
As we have exclusively reported, TAP may have to pay $1 million in damages to cancel a deal worth around three million euros. The amount to be paid should be about 500 thousand euros.
O CM contacted TAP again to seek further clarification on this process as there are still a few important issues that need to be clarified, but an official within the company declined to comment, saying he had nothing to add to what had already been communicated.
On Friday, Andre Ventura, leader of Chega, said at the end of a meeting with finance and parliamentary ministers on next year’s budget policy that “everything indicates that, along with an increase of 900 million euros, the government is already in the process of finding a large international group for sale TAP.
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SYNTACThe National Union of Civil Aviation Workers, said that the government will have to “control this administration, which seems to be interested only in privileges, ignoring the sacrifices of the workers.”
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“In the future, the acquisition of these new machines would be an incomprehensible position in our time, when great efforts are required from all TAP employees,” they say in the Union of Aircraft Technicians.
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In response to the managers’ proposed fleet renewal, the Civil Aviation Pilots’ Union stated that “it’s about respect. We ask for more respect for TAP employees and taxpayers.”
CLICKstruggling financially, criticized ANA, owned by French Vinci, after the latter announced that it had submitted “a proposal to update the regulated airport charges with an effective date of February 1, 2023, in accordance with the new model provided in the grant under the contract.”
