Iberia pilots continue strike for second day

Pilots at Spanish airline Iberia said they were continuing their strike and that the company had offered them nothing new at their last meeting.

In a release, the pilots union SEPLA said Spain’s largest airline didn’t send any top officials to a meeting late yesterday and “refused to budge in its position”.

Earlier yesterday, Iberia had said it would deliver at the meeting a document that guaranteed in writing the jobs of all its pilots.

Iberia was forced to cancel 220 flights yesterday and an average of 240 a day would be scrapped for the rest of the week.

Spain’s flagship carrier has calculated that the stoppage will cost Iberia €35m in lost revenue.