Malta Association(M-ALPA) calls for airline CEO’s resignation
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IFALPA Daily News_24/08/12
ALPA-Malta has called for the resignation of Air Malta’s chief after a statement issued by the airline’s management contained, what the Association described as “unfounded and irresponsible allegations” against it.
In its own statement, the Association said that the “management is accusing ALPA of having caused a loss of €2.5 million when the association allegedly blocked a lease of an extra aircraft. Air Malta has been leasing aircraft on a regular basis for many years. Both ALPA and its members have been instrumental in providing leasing opportunities for Air Malta on a number of occasions over the years. ALPA continues and will continue to support Air Malta’s leasing efforts in the same way that ALPA has facilitated the employment of a number of Air Malta pilots to other airlines in order to reduce significantly the airline’s payroll burden…. ALPA has categorically stated that it will continue to honour its existing collective agreement, including those clauses concerning leasing”. The statement continued “Air Malta’s management are trying to fool its shareholders and the Maltese public into believing that ALPA is asking for a ridiculous increase in pay. The facts are that ALPA had actually offered to take an increase only after some stability returns to the airline’s finances. In any case, the increase ALPA was negotiating was 3 per cent pa on the basic wage, in addition to arrears which are still being claimed and a slight increase in the overtime rate or points.…..In spite of a focused drive by Air Malta’s management to push ALPA into taking industrial action, ALPA’s members will continue to work according to their contractual obligations and will resist provocation by certain persons in Air Malta’s management as far as possible and until such a time that safety becomes a significant issue…It is already clear to those who are involved in the day to day operation of the airline that very little, if any progress has been achieved by the airline’s current management. Except in the area of redundancies which came at a high price. The rebranding Air Malta needs is the sort that sees the replacement of Air Malta’s existing CEO with a fresh brand of airline management”.
Recently Air Malta unveiled its new colours, pictured, and brand identity
