Morocco: RAM blocked by pilot claims

The Moroccan Association of Air Line Pilots (AMPL) of Royal Air Maroc has started a new strike since Wednesday, July 18th.
Indeed, the management of the national airline and the pilots have not found a common ground to meet AMPL’s demands which include wages and the improvement of working conditions.
For example, in an open letter, RAM’s chief executive officer warns of the new strike, which he says is “likely to darken his economic future”.
“We are doomed to rewrite the same story, the same for 20 years,” denounces Abdelhamid Addou, the CEO in the document.
The top mangement sees in this umpteenth “devastating” strike of the pilots, a block of any initiative to invest in the company for its development, no shareholder being able to mobilize funds in such a context of uncertainty.
Worse, the economic outlook will be revised downward within the airline. The blockage of the activity “will destroy value and degrade our economic indicators and will force us to a relative survival in the coming months,” warns the CEO.
In addition, “it will affect the image of RAM already damaged, will make the happiness of the competition and will definitively close our common project of development”.
The highlight of the open letter addressed to the commanders and pilot officers, the company announces its intention to cancel scheduled aircraft orders, “because we do not have the financial means to acquire them,” says Addou.
As a reminder, the pilots had already observed a showdown last February. Vigorous tensions had rocked the flights and the company was forced to cancel a dozen, especially those connecting to Africa.