{"id":12970,"date":"2020-06-26T12:38:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-26T10:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/air-malta-pilots-not-near-agreement-as-court-deadline-looms\/"},"modified":"2020-06-26T12:38:00","modified_gmt":"2020-06-26T10:38:00","slug":"air-malta-pilots-not-near-agreement-as-court-deadline-looms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/air-malta-pilots-not-near-agreement-as-court-deadline-looms\/","title":{"rendered":"Air Malta, pilots not near agreement as court deadline looms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Air <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/\">Malta<\/a>, pilots not near agreement as court deadline looms<\/p>\n<p>Air Malta and the pilots&rsquo; union are not near reaching an agreement despite a court of law suggesting the two sides reach an amicable way forward. The deadline given by the court expires today.<\/p>\n<p>Malta Today reports that the company is &ldquo;expecting&rdquo; the pilots&rsquo; union to accept a temporary suspension of collective agreement rights until the airline makes it out of the difficulties generated by the Coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>The company has asked the Airline Pilots Association for &ldquo;a genuine understanding&rdquo; of the situation for Air Malta to overcome the financial difficulties brought about by the closure of the airport and the cancellation of many flights, the source added.<\/p>\n<p>With the airport set to reopen next week, Air Malta is trying to secure a sustainable operation over the next 12 months as the tourism industry is re-ignited.<\/p>\n<p>ALPA filed a request for a court order to stop the airline from making 69 pilots redundant but during last week&rsquo;s sitting both sides informed Judge Toni Abela that a deal was &ldquo;close&rdquo;.<\/p>\n<p>Abela gave both sides one week to sort out their issues.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Source: Independent Malta <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.com.mt\/articles\/2020-06-26\/local-news\/Air-Malta-pilots-not-near-agreement-as-court-deadline-looms-6736224581\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Air Malta, pilots not near agreement as court deadline looms<\/a><br \/>\n{$excerpt:n}<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Air Malta, pilots not near agreement as court deadline looms Air Malta and the pilots&rsquo; union are not near reaching an agreement despite a court of law suggesting the two sides reach an amicable way&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2139],"tags":[1850],"class_list":["post-12970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-malta-news","tag-abatement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12970"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12970"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12970\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}