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Ryanair has been fired six cabin crew members on the ground floor, the BBC reported.
Jim Atkinson, who admonished Ryanair for not better accommodating a crew stranded in Spain due to storms, BBC reported.
Twenty crew members were stranded on Oct. 14, but the crew was short on the crew, but Ryanair told the news agency.
The Portuguese cabin crew union, SNPVAC, said that in fact, the crew was left in a room from 1:30 am to 6 am, "without minimum rest facilities," BBC reported.
The Dublin-based airline told BBC that the firings stemmed from news stories that hurt the company's reputation.
Ryanair did not immediately return a request for comment.
The company has had a tumultuous year, regarding its workforce. Just under a third of its pilots went on strike in July, with their demands focused on a better system for transfers and promotions. The strikes expanded, resulting in canceled flights during the summer season.
The year before blaming a backlog of staff leave. The company's stock fell after the 2017 mishap and in 2018, the industry is ranked among the worst airlines by Airhelp, an industry adviser.
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