Aerolíneas back in the air

i live on one of the approach and departure paths for jorge newberry airport that serves primarily domestic flights within argentina... i noticed a significant pick-up in air traffic yesterday and assumed they were back flying...

Workers and management of Argentina’s largest airline Aerolíneas Argentinas yesterday reached an agreement, suspending their wage dispute and ending a nine-day walkout that had affected more than 80,000 passengers.

The strikers, who account for about 2,000 of the company’s 8,500 workers, agreed to a 90-day truce while they hammer out a definitive wage contract with the management of the airline, which is run by the Spanish consortium Marsans.

Spokesmen for the two unions representing pilots and mechanics of Aerolíneas Argentinas said the workers had accepted in principle the company’s offer of three monthly bonuses of between 400 and 450 pesos for the technicians and of between 600 and 1,000 pesos for the pilots. In further negotiations, the unions will demand that those bonuses become part of the salaries.

Aerolíneas Argentinas’ spokesman Julio Scaramella said that the former Argentine state-run airline had promised to re-hire more than 300 employees it fired during the bitter strike, as demanded by the unions.

argentina has been trying to get a grip on inflation which, for a month or two this past year, has hit double digits... president kirchner just announced two days ago that he had wangled an agreement from producers and supermarket chains to lower commodity food prices by 15% for the next three months... it's been inflation that's been driving wage increase demands but, as the vicious cycle rolls on, wage increases tend to lead to more inflation...

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