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The low-cost airline Ryanair fired six cabin crew members on a photo showing that they seemed to be sleeping on the floor of an airport crew room, insisting on the that the photo was staged to support a "false claim".
The six cabin crew members, based in Porto, Portugal, were fired on Monday "for breach of contract for serious misconduct," Ryanair said in a statement released Wednesday.
The airline said the group had staged "a fake photo to support a false claim – widely reported in the international media – that they were" forced to sleep on the floor "in the crew hall of Malaga."
He added that their actions "had damaged the reputation of their employer and caused irreparable breach of trust" with Ryanair.
After posting the photo on social media last month, Ryanair posted a security camera in the room, which showed uniformed staff members sitting on chairs before some of them went to school. To lie on the floor to take the picture.
The Portuguese union SNPVAC, which represents the staff, said earlier that the photo was "a gesture of protest" against the conditions in which they found themselves after being stranded in Spain by a storm.
Ryanair employees were not awarded hotel rooms and ended up "without the minimum legal requirements for adequate accommodation", with insufficient access to food and beverages, as well as enough seats for a third of them, said the union.
He stated that Ryanair's badertion that the viral photo was staged was in itself a "false news".
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