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Old 30th Oct 2001, 14:55
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Unhappy Air Europa - 197 pilots redundant

Bad News from Spain.

Air Europa has closed its Air Europa Express operation - its ATP division, which operated 17 aircraft.

Affected routes are:

Madrid - Badajoz
Madrid - A Coruña
Madrid - Alicante
Madrid - Lisboa
Madrid - Oporto
Madrid - Oviedo
Madrid - Valencia
Barcelona - Bilbao
Palma - Mahón
Palma - Ibiza

337 staff have lost their jobs, of which 197 were pilots.

Also affected are the routes and staffing operated on behalf of Iberia, who has cancelled its wet lease operation.
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On the Air Europa official web site there is a confirmation of the above news but it is unclear if they are closing down the whole ATP operation or only those routes.
Anybody knows something else about this?, I have personal friends there that I am unable to contact at the moment.
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Old 31st Oct 2001, 00:41
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A mate on the 767/757 called this morning;

Air Europa “Express” ended operations this morning at 0001 local time, all the ATPs will be returned to the leasing company.

The civil aviation authority announced that it would sanction the parent company Air Europa for not giving two month notice.

All the 757s , 6 in total flying for Iberia with AEA crews are to be returned to the leasing companies too.

That leaves Air Europa with 23 737s and 3 767s

Seniority lists were sent today via email, fax, etc. Redundancies will affect all the ATP crews, around 180, Captains and FOs and another 70 first officers from the 73/75/76.

300 have been spared.
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