TAP will pay its pilots six extra base salaries this month and next as compensation for the use of external flights. The measure is expected to amount to 60 million euros in the carrier’s accounts, the weekly Expresso reported on Friday, citing Boletim do Trabalho e Emprego of April 29.
The compensation is due to the fact that the limits for external contracting of flights provided for in the company’s agreement with the Pilots’ Union were exceeded. At stake is the Outsourcing Regulation, a mechanism that was suspended during the pandemic and came back into force in 2023.
Portugália, part of TAP SGPS, has the largest influence on the use of external flights. External hiring rules now require additional salaries to be paid to TAP’s 1,200 pilots when flights to Portugal exceed the former’s global flights by 8%.
TAP’s losses in the first quarter of this year were 71.9 million euros, up from negative 57.4 million in the same period in 2023.
Author: João Maltes
Source: CM Jornal
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