Ryanair needs a leader who can communicate to people what the airline can do for them, not just what it can’t, writes Victoria White

Holiday-goers are facing a summer of potential travel chaos as Ryanair cabin crew will today warn that they could join pilots in strike action, which could ground hundreds of flights.

Pilots at Ryanair have voted in favour of industrial action, after slow progress on union negotiations.

Ryanair pilots are to suspend a planned one-day strike on Wednesday after company management agreed to recognise the union as the representative of Irish-based pilots.

Ryanair is set once again to grab the headlines over the coming weeks as its pilots, or at least some of them, decide to do what their unionised friends always do and that is to disrupt the travelling public at an important time of the year, writes Paul Mills

Reports made to the Irish Aviation Authority (IAA) go into a “black hole”, it has been alleged.

A pilots’ union has accused the airline behind the planned Cork-Boston route of “using Cork as a pawn” in a battle over labour standards.

One in four Aer Lingus workers could lose their jobs if the airline is taken over by IAG, unions have claimed.

Pilots at Aer Lingus are reportedly being balloted for strike action to lend their support to a hundred Aer Arann pilots due to strike next week.

Aer Lingus pilots balloting for strike action this evening, it has been reported.

You cannot make scrambled egg without breaking an egg or two. Likewise you cannot grow and operate one of the most successful airlines in the world, using a business model that is anathema to many vested interests, without annoying a few people — or in the case of Ryanair — an awful lot of people.

Aer Arann pilots have voted with an overwhelming majority in favour of industrial action against the company over a pay dispute.

Aer Arran pilots will begin discussing what kind of industrial action they plan to take against the company as they prepare to serve strike notice.

Airline pilots have warned that EU’s aviation safety body is placing the safety of passengers at risk due to proposals to change existing flying time limits for pilots.

Ryanair boss Michael O’Leary has rubbished claims that authorities in Spain could suspend his airline’s operating licence over a fuel row.

A strike action planned by Aer Arann pilots has been called off.

FOR the rest of this month, passengers intending to fly with Aer Lingus should have some certainty over their travel plans as pilots have called off industrial action until at least July 1.

Travel chaos for air passengers has been averted this week after planned industrial action involving Aer Lingus pilots was called off.

AER LINGUS has taken the precaution of offering passengers free refunds on flights if last ditch talks fail to prevent pilots taking industrial action next Tuesday.

Aer Lingus passengers have been warned of possible flight cancellations after pilots served the carrier with notice of industrial action.

AN Isle of Man politician wants his parliament to clarify the status of virtual airline Manx2, one of the companies at the centre of the Cork Airport crash probe.

THE inexperienced captain of the Cork Airport crash flight allowed his rookie co-pilot to make three landing attempts in dense fog.

AER LINGUS carried 664,000 passengers in February — 24,000, or 3.5%, less than in the same month last year.

AER LINGUS has said it will press ahead with its plans to axe up to 1,000 jobs even though it has accepted savings put forward by its cabin crew.

PILOTS are flying dangerously long hours without adequate breaks, a report by international aviation experts will claim later this week.

Aer Lingus pilots have voted overwhelmingly in favour of a deal which clears the way for the establishment of the airline’s new Belfast base, it emerged tonight.

FOR now Aer Lingus flights will continue to take off after the company’s hard-fought deal with IMPACT looked likely to be given the green light by union members last night.

THE Labour Relations Commission is expected to intervene in the Aer Lingus dispute over the weekend.

AER LINGUS pilots will tell the airline tomorrow that its proposals to resolve the dispute over the new Belfast base are welcome but still fail to address crucial issues.

THERE is unlikely to be any narrowing of the gulf between Aer Lingus and its pilots over the terms and conditions surrounding the employment of staff at the new Belfast base after talks yesterday failed to make any substantive headway.

DISRUPTIVE strike action at Aer Lingus is looking increasingly likely as management and pilots prepared to meet in last-ditch talks at the Labour Relations Commission.

CABIN CREW at Aer Lingus have threatened to join the airline’s pilots in their industrial protest over pay and conditions on offer at the company’s proposed new Belfast base.

Aer Lingus management and Union representatives are due back before the Labour Relations Commission (LRC) today for talks over the airline’s new Belfast base.

THE latest round of talks between Aer Lingus management and pilots begins at the Labour Relations Commission this morning.

AER LINGUS management and its pilots enter talks at the Labour Relations Commission (LRC) on Monday, with both more determined than ever not to compromise over the conditions for workers at the airline’s new Belfast base.

AER LINGUS aircraft took to the skies relatively on schedule yesterday, something that was far from guaranteed just two days earlier as 480 pilots looked likely to ground 45,000 passengers.

AMID an uneasy and highly fragile peace between Aer Lingus and its pilots, nearly all Aer Lingus flights into and out of Ireland will go ahead today.

AER LINGUS has leased eight planes and crews to accommodate more than a fifth of the 45,000 passengers whose flight plans have been thrown into disarray by a pilot strike next week.

AER LINGUS passengers looked almost certain last night to be grounded for more than the 48-hour strike by pilots next week as both company and unions refused to back down.

A LANDMARK Supreme Court ruling — which found the Labour Court had acted incorrectly in a row between Ryanair and its pilots — could have major implications for how industrial disputes at companies which do not recognise trade unions are resolved.

RYANAIR has described last night’s RTÉ documentary on alleged pilot fatigue in the budget airline as a baseless unbalanced sham.