Muchos empleados del aeropuerto Internacional de Miami que leyeron nuestro articulo del pasado viernes sobre la descabellada idea de la comisionada Eileen Higgins de crear otros dos permisos GASP, nos han enviado correos electrónicos pidiéndonos que publicáramos el articulo en Ingles, hoy los complacemos con dos artículos, uno de seguimiento al del viernes y la traducción, esperamos que hayan sido complacidos. Gracias.
MIAMI FEBRUARY 8, 2021, NHR.COM — On Friday we revealed the absurd idea of District 5 Commissioner Eileen Higgins that instead of improving the employment situation at Miami International Airport would make it worse.
We’ve said that District 5 Commissioner Eileen Higgins plans to come forward with a proposal to increase the number of businesses that can serve airlines in MIA, something that would create more unemployment, according to our sources.
The Aviation Department has granted over the years a total of 5 permits for 5 companies that do cleaning services of planes when they arrive at the terminals, disembark and load the suitcases, as well as others.
Sources tell us that before there were only 4 permits, but a fifth was created to give opportunities to Hispanic companies that operated at the airport, but without the GASP permit.
These existing companies have suffered financially as a result of the pandemic. For example: currently, the volume of work of these companies has been reduced from 50% to 70%, they have had to send their employees home and to the unemployment line. The “layoffs” have been massive in Miami International, more than 50% of its employees. According to sources, this week there will be more employees laid off, because Cuba has canceled all its flights to the Island, allowing only one a week, these flights bring thousands of passengers to the airport, the source told us.
Another of the serious problems that would confront the granting of two new GASP permits would be the parking of the equipment of the companies that win the tenders, where to put them?
An airport executive told us that currently within the 3,230 acres of MIA there is no space to place the equipment that these companies need to operate such a service.
Our sources in the Aviation Department tell us that the airport management is opposed to this crazy idea of Commissioner Higgins. Several commissioners we have spoken to over the weekend have told us that “at this time the creation of new permits is not feasible GASP ”.
Tomorrow, Tuesday, the aviation committee will meet, on this issue. According to the source in the Aviation Department “letting in two other new companies will cause more unemployment, since there will be more competition between 7 companies when there is hardly any work for 5.” This will mean that the existing companies that have had this permit for years at the airport will have to reduce their staff this time due to the competition created by Commissioner Higgins.
Commissioners and committee members should not support this project by Commissioner Eileen Higgins as this would not bring solutions to the current situation, on the contrary, instead of improving, it would worsen the situation at Miami International Airport.
