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A fourth strike of the day pilots at Ryanair next week will touch 3,500 pbadengers of the company, the company confirmed.
A hundred members of the Irish Airline Pilots' Association (Ialpa) – part of the Fórsa union – plans to hold its fourth strike at the airline on Friday, August 3, as part of of a dispute over basic transfers, promotions, holidays and other problems.
Ryanair announced Thursday that it has canceled 20 of the 300 scheduled flights for that date. result of the strike.
The airline added that it had contacted the 3,500 pbadengers concerned to offer them a refit on other flights, or refunds. Services canceled will be between the Republic and the United Kingdom.
Ryanair's announcement comes as Taoiseach, Leo Varadkar, calls the airline and Ialpa / Fórsa to resume talks and end the dispute that is entering its third week. He said that they should think about the impact on pbadengers who end up paying the salaries of pilots, aircrew and management, as well as shareholder dividends.
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M. Varadkar said that "
" I am very concerned about the escalation of the Ryanair dispute, especially the impact that this is going to have on vacationers. – Ordinary people who have spent months saving for their holidays, "he said.
The airline maintains that it has avoided canceling flights to popular vacation destinations during the conflict.
Ryanair said this week the impact of the strikes on Irish reservations and fares was one of the reasons his board approved a reduction of its fleet from Dublin to 30 versus 30 next winter, with the potential loss of 300 jobs. "The Federation said the Ryanair cabin crew strikes in Belgium, Portugal and Spain over the past two days may have caused the Cancellation of 20% of the company's flights on its network.
the strikes would affect about 12 percent of his flights.
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