Consider passengers not SIPTU members: Ryanair

Ryanair has repeated its call for the Government to sack the board of Aer Rianta if it fails to implement a contingency plan to prevent disruption to Ireland's airports tomorrow.

Chief Executive, Michael O'Leary dismissed Aer Rianta's claim that a contingency plan would inflame an already sensitive situation among 2,000 SIPTU members.

O'Leary said this morning: "This strike if it goes ahead would be the third time the SIPTU trade union has closed Dublin Airport in recent years.

"It would also be the third time that the Board of the Aer Rianta monopoly will have failed to put in place its own contingency plan to keep our national airport open.

"This claim by Aer Rianta of not wanting to upset a sensitive situation, while at the same time upsetting 70,000 passengers, is another example of semi-state incompetence and management impotence," he added.

SIPTU are to resume talks today after it received proposals from Transport Minister Seamus Brennan, to see if the planned industrial action can be averted.