Argentine airline strike ends.

Buenos Aires, Dec 2, 2005 (EFE via COMTEX) -- Aerolineas Argentinas pilots and technicians reached an agreement with the company Friday to end a strike begun more than a week ago, authorities said.

Juan Pappalardo, who heads one of the unions involved in the dispute, said the key to ending the strike was the intervention of "a new mediator" - an allusion to Gerardo Diaz, a main shareholder of the Marsans group that controls the airline.

Minutes after his announcement, representatives of the Airline Pilots' Association said they had also accepted the agreement.

Pappalardo said Aerolineas Argentinas - …