It’s set to span across five countries.
Ryanair cabin crew in five countries have announced that they will be going on strike on 28 September as unrest continues among Ryanair staff.
Cabin crew from unions in Belgium, the Netherlands, Italy, Spain and Portugal announced a 24-hour stoppage that unions say will be the biggest strike in the airline’s history.
The strike at the end of the month follows a strike by Ryanair pilots in Germany this week which saw 150 flights cancelled.
“Unfortunately, discussions continue without results,” Yves Lambot of Belgium’s CNE union told AFP, when speaking about negotiations with Ryanair.
“They have promised to change our contracts into national contracts by 2022. This is too late for us. We want 2019.”
Ryanair has said it expects a significant majority of its cabin crew in Spain, Italy, Belgium, the Netherlands and Portugal will also work normally and said there will not be any “travel chaos” or “widespread disruptions”.
Ryanair’s Kenny Jacobs said: “Repeated false claims made by these unions about ‘travel chaos’ have proven to be unfounded. While we regret the limited strike actions that have taken place this summer, in all cases we have judiciously pre-cancelled a small number of our 2,500 daily flights in order to minimise customer disruption and inconvenience.
“We object to these lurid and inaccurate press headlines which wrongly to refer to “travel chaos”, despite the fact that during the seven days of partial strikes by a small minority of our pilots and cabin crew this summer, there has been very little disruption and absolutely no ‘chaos’.
“If there is a further unsuccessful cabin crew strike on the 28 September next then, as we demonstrated in Germany yesterday, Ryanair will pre-advise customers of a small number of flight cancellations, and the overwhelming majority of Ryanair’s flights and services that day will operate as normal, and we will carry the overwhelming majority of the 400,000 passengers who will be scheduled to fly with us that day.”
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