Ryanair pilot wrangle set to land in courts

A legal battle has broken at Ryanair over a website set up, according to unions, to help “hard-pressed” pilots exchange information about conditions at the airline, it was learned today.

Ryanair said it had launched legal proceedings over a campaign of “harassment and intimidation” of its pilots who have considered taking up jobs on the firm’s new aircraft, to be based in Dublin later this year.