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Iberia limits cabin crew to minimum required due to low occupancy.

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Iberia will limit cabin crew on its long-haul flights from April 1 to the minimum required for safety reasons, according to a letter from the airline to this group, to which EFE has had access.

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Iberia sources confirmed Saturday that this is a temporary measure, which aims to adjust costs to the drop in revenue, based on the low occupancy factor that “unfortunately” has been suffering the company during the pandemic of covid-19, as noted in the letter the director of cabin crew (TCP) of the airline, Bernardo Moya.

The minimum required is eight flight attendants per flight (which is equivalent to the number of gates on the company’s long-haul aircraft (A350, A330-200 or A330-300), explained sources from Sitcpla’s union section at Iberia in statements to EFE.

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Although the workload will be adjusted according to the flight occupancy forecast, Sitcpla calculates that this crew reduction could have a lower employment impact of around 40 crew members per month.

The Iberia executive adds in his notification to the TCP that it is “a difficult and unwanted decision”, but it is a difficult period “both from a personal and professional point of view” and, moreover, everything points to the fact that it will continue to be so in the coming months.

“A near future with low occupancy on the airline’s planes and, in which the great uncertainty makes medium-term planning even more complex,” he stressed.

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