Airline seeks 100 redundancies

Aer Lingus has announced it is looking for 100 further voluntary redundancies as part of a policy to make cost-cutting part of the airline’s day-to-day operations.

In an interim management statement released to the stock exchange the airline announced that, due to losses sustained in a traditionally weak first quarter, it was seeking the redundancies.

The package on offer is understood to be four weeks’ pay plus statutory per year of service. The package is capped at 104 weeks’ pay. Workers will have one month to apply for the package.