Despite the fact that they carried out a strike during Holy Week, harming hundreds of travelers, and there is a latent new threat of another strike, air traffic controllers can charge up to S/ 60,000 per month, according to the Punto Final report.
In this way, they exceed the salaries of a congressman (S/ 15,600), the President of the Republic (S/ 16,000) and the president of the Central Reserve Bank (S/ 41,600).
According to the news report, in January this year, Carlos Oliva Valenzuelaradar air traffic controller, received S/ 52,029; Marco Vargas Sagastegui, S / 49,394; Y Luis Montero AguilarS/ 49,320.
While in February the salaries of other air traffic controllers were around S/ 60,000, such as Vicente Mendoza Cochas, who received S/ 58,639; Luis Rojas Prado, S/ 52,998; and Carlos Saavedra Robles, S/ 54,409.
Extra hours
In the report, the general secretary of the Unified Union of Air Traffic Controllers of Peru (Sucta), Víctor Zavaleta, justified the exorbitant salary due to the shortage of personnel that results in the assignment of “overtime”, which would be scheduled by the Corpac himself.
“They work overtime between 100 and 150 hours, which is inhumane, that is due to a serious personnel crisis that we have and denounced a long time ago.”, specified the official, who added: “It is not always (that they earn that salary), but because of the shortage of personnel”.
“Suddenly they will say we won a lot, but I ask people the question, how much is a person’s life worth? We do the same delicacy of a surgery every day when we have 10 flights at the same time converging to Lima and we manage a very high level of stress.Zavaleta said.
In addition, he pointed out that the group of workers perform other functions outside of air traffic control within Copac, such as instruction.
“This occurs for several months and Corpac does not pay it in the month, but can let up to eight months pass to pay for the instruction work and that causes the spreadsheets to overflow.”, he referred.
According to Latina, the basic remuneration of an air operator is between S/ 4,000 and S/ 7,500 per month, however, this range can vary from S/ 10,000 to S/ 50,000 for bonuses, overtime and other income.
missing drivers
For his part, Jorge Perlacios, president of the Corpac board, indicated that a reengineering is needed due to the lack of controllers, which currently would be 260, for air traffic that has increased over the years in the country.
“We need more controllers because there is a shortage and the union agrees with that”, he stated.
In addition, the report assured that the Civil Aeronautics Instruction Center has not promoted a promotion of air traffic controllers for more than three years.
Last February, students from this center asked the then Minister of Transportation, Juan Silva, to carry out an audit after 30% of the students failed a final practical exam, where the teachers come from the trade union.
