Iberia decided to challenge the result of Ena’s handling competition. This Friday, the airline filed a case with the Central Administrative Court for Contractual Resources (TACR) over the decision of the tender for the ground handling contract (handling skills), leaving it outside the network’s eight major airports.

Iberia believes that “the legal procedure for processing the file has been violated, resulting in helplessness”company. Moreover, he condemns that ” limited information to which Iberia had access discloses obvious violations “Substantial issues such as, for example, the compliance of the business plan and technical proposal were not analyzed,” the company claims.

Thus, the IAG group airline goes to court depending on Treasury Department That suspension of bonus payment until the claim is resolved. He explains that “refusing the suspension would cause irreparable harm to both the public service, the affected workers and Iberia.”

In this sense, the airline headed by Fernando Candela asks invalidity of awards lots: 2 (Barcelona), 3 (Palma de Mallorca), 4 (Malaga), 5 (Alicante), 6 (Las Palmas de Gran Canaria), 7 (South Tenerife), 8 (Valencia), 9 (Ibiza), 11 (Arrecife-Lanzarote), 12 (Bilbao) and 14 (Fuerteventura).

And besides, he demands ” repeating the bid evaluation process achieve a reasoned decision on ratings, accompanied by a technical report justifying their assignment.”

The unions demanded that the company, in addition to appealing the award, come up with a Plan B to keep workers in the company and not have to subrogate them to other companies that had taken over the sites. relevant airports.

In this sense, they require Iberia to choose to provide ground handling services to itself and other airlines in the group rather than relying on the services of the winning bidders. The airline says it remains focused on the appeal process. Aena, for its part, defended the legality and transparency of the entire procedure.