Overview

• ATEPSA began a national, staggered action on Aug. 22 with five strike days scheduled for Aug. 22, 24, 26, 28 and 30 in set three-hour blocks, with some days featuring two windows.
• The restrictions apply only to departures, as controllers withhold takeoff and surface-movement clearances and suspend flight-plan handling during the strike windows.
• Arrivals continue to operate, and emergency, medical, humanitarian, state, and search-and-rescue flights are exempt from the stoppages.
• Airlines have started reprogramming schedules across Argentina to reduce disruption, with expectations of delays, select cancellations and widespread rescheduling.
• The dispute follows failed wage talks with EANA, a government offer of roughly a 1% monthly increase rejected by the union, and official objections from ANAC and EANA as courts declined ATEPSA’s injunction.