Mexicana's Click Attendants Strike, Grounding Flights
 William Freebairn - Bloomberg
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Flight attendants for the low-fare Click unit of Grupo Mexicana, Mexico's second-largest airline, went on strike today, grounding 112 daily domestic flights and affecting 7,000 passengers.
The attendants went on strike starting at midnight, rejecting the airline's contract offer, Mexicana said in an email statement sent today. Passengers on Click, which flies only within Mexico, are being routed to other airlines, Mexicana said.
The company's offer represents the ``maximum effort management could responsibly make,'' Mexicana said in the statement. A message left for the flight attendant's union press office wasn't returned.
Mexicana started its Click brand in 2005 and the unit serves 25 Mexican cities. Mexicana said in a statement on its Web site today that Mexicana Airlines flights were unaffected by the strike, which was called by the Click attendants only.
Separately, Mexico's Labor Ministry said pilots for a regional airline unit of Consorcio Aeromexico SAB, the nation's largest carrier, agreed to a contract offer yesterday, avoiding a strike that was set to begin today.
The pilots accepted salary increases of 3.7 percent in addition to improvements in benefits, the Labor Ministry said in a statement e-mailed late yesterday.
To contact the reporters on this story: William Freebairn in Mexico City wfreebairn(at)bloomberg.net |
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