No clear signs of a solution yet
This morning Vueling are due to meet the Spanish central government to address the situation. In the late afternoon they must meet the equivalent body in Catalonia.
The rôle played by AENA, the recently privatised Spanish airport operator has been questioned lately too.
Given the almost total lack of pro-active intervention by Spanish/ Catalan governmental bodies in support of the consumer, on past performance, Vueling has nothing to fear from these meetings.
Vueling TU leader Guadalupe Romero denied on air any form of hidden work to rule.
This morning at about 09:25 local Vueling spokesperson David Garcia finally and very belatedly made a live appearance on radio.
* When pressed to explain the chaos attributed most of the problems to the knock on effect of the cancellation of 56 flights on 28th June caused by French ATC and the need to re-allocate 8 000 passengers affected. (He more than slightly undermined his own case by stating that another low cost [sic] airline had had 176 flights cancelled the same day.)
* In a longish interview he denied that Vueling has cut out all summer peak aircraft leases and asserted that 6 are in place for July and August. He also gave figures for many extra personnel both pilots and cabin staff. Also a sudden increase of staff to handle complaints.
Most worryingly of all, long term in this farrago, for IAG shareholders, the performance of the previous Vueling chief executive Alex Cruz who has now moved to head up BA been questioned, with what degree of accuracy I cannot know, recently.
One final observation, it is impossible as a long time resident of Catalonia not to compare and contrast the media and/ or governmental kicking which Vueling is currently receiving with the hyper-indulgent fawning obsequiousness which has characterised their relationship with the infamous lowClass airline and its jesterKing which/ who has run multi million euro rings round them and incited them to build gin-palace airports at Reus and to a lesser extent at Girona which are almost empty 9 months of the year.
Last edited by BigFrank; 4th Jul 2016 at 09:43.