Risk of even greater flight cancellations following Ryanair pilots' strike

Sixteen other Ryanair flights are in danger of being canceled Tuesday, as strike breaks intensify without any solution between the union Fórsa and the airline in sight.

Ryanair pilots will strike first today, affecting 4,000 customers traveling between Ireland and the United Kingdom, the airline qualifying the airline 's action. ; "useless".

And last night, 16 more flights were canceled. Tuesday after the announcement of the Fórsa union strike representing Irish pilots.

Ryanair last night tweeted a letter to Fórsa saying that the airline "calls Fórsa to cancel the July 24 strike by less than 25pc of our Irish pilots".

The letter to Angela Kirk, the union's national secretary in Dublin, refers to a meeting the airline had with Fórsa on Wednesday.

"Although this meeting was mainly to update the new members of your team, nothing has progressed since we have had no commitment or response from the Pilots Committee on Ryanair's proposals. .. "

The airline has stated that unless it hears the union" we will issue cancellations tomorrow (Friday) to spend Engaged on 16 (out of over 290) flights from / to destination of Ireland next Tuesday. "

The company said it" could easily re-accommodate this small number of customers on other flights ", and added:" The lack of Fórsa's urgency is unacceptable "

But Niall Shanahan, spokesman for Fórsa, told Irish Independent:" Ryanair's management has made no reference to the strike at our meeting with them yesterday. "

Pilots Motorists seek to establish a master list of & # 39; seniority to give people with the longest seniority the first option for promotions, leave and basic transfers.

With respect to today's action, the airline said that 90 of the 4,000 affected customers had been resettled.

Customer service teams helped pbadengers with refunds, free transfers and alternative flights.

Ryanair by cabin crew strikes in Belgium, Portugal and Spain on Wednesday 25 and Thursday 26 July.

The Irish Independent asked if 300 canceled flights a day would affect Irish pbadengers, but received no information. 19659004] Ryanair stated that 12% of its customers would be affected by these cancellations.

Irish Independent