The airline has issued a statement.
Ryanair has confirmed that talks with a pilot union finished without agreement on Wednesday, meaning that Thursday’s strike will go ahead.
27% of Irish pilots will strike on Thursday, which has led to 30 cancellations on flights between Ireland and the United Kingdom.
Despite crisis talks which lasted for seven hours, an agreement could not be struck.
According to RTÉ, the union is seeking an agreement that will “provide our member pilots directly employed by Ryanair with a fair and transparent mechanism to understand how and why they are in the base they are in, the order in which their turn may come up for a transfer, how and why they received a particular annual leave allocation, or any other decisions that should take due account of their length of service and seniority in the company.”
The statement can be read in full below.
Ryanair pilot union talks conclude without agreement.
Ryanair expects strike by 27% of Irish pilots to proceed tomorrow: pic.twitter.com/iEq88sQQMu
— Ryanair (@Ryanair) July 11, 2018
Good news. By 5pm today, over 90% of our 5,000 customers whose Ireland-UK flights on Thur 12 July were cancelled due to an unnecessary strike by 27% of our Irish pilots will have been re-accommodated on alternative flights, or applied for full refunds.
— Ryanair (@Ryanair) July 11, 2018
The company has specified that “Customers flying on flights from Ireland to Europe tomorrow will suffer no cancellations, even if the strike goes ahead, thanks to the great work by the majority of our Irish pilots who are not proposing to strike.”
Customers flying on flights from Ireland to Europe tomorrow will suffer no cancellations, even if the strike goes ahead, thanks to the great work by the majority of our Irish pilots who are not proposing to strike.
— Ryanair (@Ryanair) July 11, 2018
The strike comes as European airports in countries like the France, Germany and Greece are suffering a shortage of Air Traffic Control staff, which has caused further disruption to Irish holiday-makers in the last two weeks.
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