Argentine Pilots Call Strike To Protest Foreigners Being Hired By National Airlines

The Argentinian Association of Airline Pilots (APLA) has called a 48-hour strike to protest the decision of the National Civil Aviation Administration (ANAC) to allow foreign pilots to work at Argentine national airlines

MEXICO CITY (UrduPoint News / Sputnik - 17th January, 2019) The Argentinian Association of Airline Pilots (APLA) has called a 48-hour strike to protest the decision of the National Civil Aviation Administration (ANAC) to allow foreign pilots to work at Argentine national airlines.

According to the association's statement, published on its official website late on Wednesday, the strike will kick off at 6:00 a.m.

local time (09:00 GMT) on Thursday and will last until 6:00 a.m. Saturday.

"ANAC wants to open our sky to foreign pilots so that they could substitute us while we are exercising our constitutional right to strike," the organizers of the strike said in a statement.

Last November, Argentine state-owned airline Aerolineas Argentinas had to cancel over 370 flights, affecting dozens of thousands of passengers, because of a strike called by the company's pilots and other staff just days before the G20 Summit in Buenos Aires.