More transparency required: Ryanair pilots on strike for the first time in Ireland

In Ireland, people are hitting Ryanair Drivers – for the first time in the country of origin of the airline. It is a more transparent salary and promotion system. According to the airline, the effects of the strike are "limited".

Cheap Irish airline Ryanair canceled flights to Ireland due to the biggest pilots strike in its history. Ryanair's Dublin port of call, canceled routes to 16 destinations at 6 am, including London, Birmingham and Manchester. In addition, flights to the Irish capital Dublin are canceled

The pilots strike for the first time in the homeland of the low-cost airline. They are all on a more transparent system of salary, promotion and transfer.

"Careers at the discretion of superiors"

The Irish Forsa union, which owns the IALPA Irish Pilots 'Union, complains that Pilots' careers depended heavily on the discretion of the superiors. A spokesperson said that conversations with the employer would not resume until they were on an equal footing and made the managers believe that they were serious. Other combat measures can not be ruled out until then. On Wednesday night, Forsa had stated that a recent conversation with Ryanair had brought "very little progress".

The company emphasizes, however, that its pilots would be paid as well as nowhere else in the area of ​​budget flights. He offered to the scabs to pay taxi or parking fees.

Ryanair's pilots and cabin crew did not organize until the fall, after the airline had been hit by a series of cancellations. In December, Ryanair recognized employee representation for the first time in 32 years of existence. In Germany and Portugal, there have already been labor disputes at Ryanair. Cabin crews announced strikes in four countries in July.