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Colombia’s former intelligence chief, Laude José Fernández Arroyo has been detained and is currently under house arrest; having been charged with illegally wiretapping ACDAC, the pilot’s union that had been involved in a bitter strike with Avianca during 2017. Fernández headed...

Last week United Airlines (NASDAQ: UAL) moved to remove longtime chairman and controlling shareholder Germán Efromovich from Avianca’s  (NYSE: AVH) (BVC: PFAVH), board of directors. Adding insult to injury, United installed Roberto Kriete as the board’s new chairman. All this...

Avianca say the problem involved the failure of a communications system with crew members who did not show up for scheduled flights.

Among those fired was Colombian Association of Civil Aviators (ACDAC) union head Jaime Hernández.

The flight is being added as a part of the agreement reached last year to end the pilot strike.

The backpay and extended benefits apply retroactively to all Avianca pilots — not only the roughly 700 members of the ACDAC union.

“We urge the pilots of ACDAC to return to work and comply with the legal decisions immediately," said Avianca head Hernán Rincón.

The pilots union said that "the Colombian state is on the side of the company that violates labor rights and not the rights of workers.”

Overall, the bank estimates this shortfall equates to an overall net income loss of $1.5 million USD per day.

Ticket sales have been reactivated but technical challenges have made searching for a flight complicated in the first day of encouragement that the strike could end soon.