The sky is cleared

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The national air line by excellence
The sky is cleared
By: Carlos Damián March 7, 2012
It will restart activities with seven planes
México. - For the Mexicana Aviation Company (Mexicana) after 17 months of have ceased operations, for Mexicana, "the sky has been cleared" so that undertake again the flight, informed the mercantile contest judge of the airline, Felipe Grove Consolation (FCS), upon announcing that the resources with those which counts the group Atlantic Med of Mexican origin is of lawful origin, with what will be proceeded to close the contest’s agreement so that them could be granted the air operator certificate.

Cristian Cadenas, representative of Atlantic Med, countersigned that "is an investment of Mexico for Mexico". Added that with the plan of businesses rescue, "we would begin to fly with seven planes and we will make it in 7 routes and from there progressively until reaching 44 planes toward the end of the first 12 months". Mexicana anticipates to produce more planes to a company in San Francisco, while would be gone recovering, adding. Though it has not been specified the routes with those which would begin the operations the icon airline of Mexico abroad, that ceased its operations 28 of August of 2010, Michael Angel Yudico (MAY), General leadership of the union SNTT-TASS, explains that the intention is to begin to fly to the destinations "more productive".

According to MAY in the air routes busier we will have the next week confirmations according to the airports than authorize them to fly. All the units are in "perfect conditions", since 800 working that remain in land that work in the base them give attention to daily, as demand it the manufacturers. Concerning the emission by the SCT of the air operator certificate, explained Dionisio Perez Jacome, it should be to subscribe "the creditors agreement, that it is an indispensable step to continue advancing in the process of the mercantile contest, and to achieve that leave of the Mexicana insolvency and thereinafter we will be in possibilities in the SCT of ending with the analysis of the tending documentation to grant the air operator certificate".

Temporary routes
On the return of the slots - hourly of takeoff and landing - and routes the official assured that they will be assigned to Mexicana in how much be ready to recapture the flight and affirmed that have relinquished to other airlines the slots was only something "temporary" and that "it not violent, no arrangement in this matter". The leadership of the Ministry of the Work and Social Provision (STPS), Rosalinda Velez, asserts that are gone to pay the passive that drags the air company. In first instance will not be recovered 8 thousand 500 since were lost with the cease of operations, the calculation is that in the first stages could be employed to 2 thousand 600 and the occupational insole will grow gradually until arriving to some 5 thousand.

Fernando Perfecto, ASPA’s leader, recognized the “political will" of the leadership of the SCT, since this was a determinant factor and exposed that "the work has not finished, finished where we’ll see to unglue the first Mexicana plane". Ricardo del Valle, directing of ASSA, considered that "this is an important step for us, for the workers that they are to the good news waiting", and Yudico Colin indicated that "though many persons and other air line were not wanting that Mexican returned to fly was made the miracle; Mexican is going to fly".

The workers are alert
Outside of the Communications and Transportation Secretariat (SCT) the Mexicana’s workers jumped of pleasure: we’ll go to fly again. But are not guaranteed neither decreased the custody. The meeting is maintained because they lack to give other battle: that they return the routes and slots so that the airline would return to the air. Then they will be able to regale with freedom. With their social movement the workers achieved that is capitalized the air line by Atlantic Med that confront the debt that let Gaston Azcarraga by 666.67 million of dollars and taxes, now the investor must accredit the technical capacities, financial, operative, legal and administrative to those which will submit it the SCT so that grant the air operator certificate in how much the dependency comply with the order of the judge FCS to return to they 40 routes and tens of slots that the other air lines, as: Interjet, Volaris, Vivaerobus and Aeromexico is outlined as the greater challenge so that return them.

Between the slopes of the struggle by returning to the work, the workers have legal resolutions by at least 10 demands against Gaston Azcarraga (GA), who from August of 2010 disappeared from the occupational scene, the same as the executives’ rest of the New Aeronautical Group, to which belong Mexicana, Click, Link, and MRO between other companies. Hardly five years after that GA bought in a bargain to Mexican in 165.5 million of dollars near the sales that they might have been made to that date, 2 of August of 2010 the then directing of the airline Manuel Borja, announced that the company were found in "a complex financial situation that should be to bad managing of the company, but to what is costly of the collective work contracts of its personal".

Happiness to the combative working of Mexicana, because without their push the air line might not have lifted the flight. But in this not all history is happiness, since of the total of workers only they are invited to the occupational holiday one of each working three. One must to recall that not all is honey on flakes, working return to the work, but they do not decrease the custody yet since lack to recover the slots and the routes that without cares the federal authority "lent" to the others airlines that already were regaling the Mexican disappearance. (La Jornada, opinion, p.p. 2 - 6, February 25, 2012).