IMPACT says there is "still a lot to be done" before the Aer Lingus roster row is resolved.

The trade union IMPACT has said Aer Lingus management has yet to make any concrete proposals to resolve a rostering dispute.

Negotiations to resolve a roster row at Aer Lingus will resume today.

Talks aimed at averting further industrial action at Aer Lingus have adjourned for the day.

Tomorrow's planned strike by Aer Lingus cabin crew is set to go ahead, despite trade union Impact accepting an invitation to talks.

Aer Lingus cabin crew will mount pickets at Dublin, Cork and Shannon airports from 5am tomorrow as their 24-hour strike grinds almost all the airline’s services into and out of the country to a halt.

Transport Minister Leo Varadkar has called on Aer Lingus cabin crew to call off strike action planned for this weekend.

Less than 48 hours ahead of a strike by its cabin crew, Aer Lingus has warned the staff that more than 300 of their jobs would be lost if the rosters they are seeking were to be implemented.

The travel plans of tens of thousands of holidaymakers have been thrown into chaos after Aer Lingus cabin crew served notice of a 24-hour strike to take place in just over two weeks’ time.

Cabin crew at Aer Lingus have voted overwhelmingly in favour of industrial action up to strike, over what their union described as "erratic" rostering at the airline.

The IMPACT trade union is warning that a strike at Aer Lingus is "very likely" this summer.

A former Ryanair pilot, who once wrote a letter to the Financial Times claiming the airline’s chief executive, Michael O’Leary, should be replaced by a junior to reduce costs, claims he would still be working for the company if it had not been “completely unreasonable”.

IMPACT said it is hopeful it can reach a solution with Aer Lingus in the dispute over plans to close its cabin crew base at Shannon Airport.

The risk of industrial unrest at Aer Lingus has increased significantly with news that the airline is to close its Shannon-based cabin crew operation.

Aer Lingus cabin crew representatives meet on Tuesday to decide on industrial action over the airline’s plans to “outsource” the crewing of transatlantic services — with job loss for potentially dozens of Shannon-based crew.

RYANAIR is to consider taking a High Court challenge against the Employment Appeals Tribunal over the use of stenographers at hearings of the tribunal.

A FORMER Ryanair pilot has claimed he was fired without notice by the airline after suffering what was a career-threatening injury while training on a flight simulator.

THE dispute by air traffic controllers, which closed Cork, Dublin and Shannon airports yesterday afternoon, looks set to escalate as the stand-off between the Irish Aviation Authority (IAA) and IMPACT trade union worsened last night.

Michael Landers of IMPACT has said this evening that air traffic controllers have agreed to engage in further industrial action.

TENS of thousands of air travellers face massive disruption today when a strike by air traffic controllers will close the country’s three main airports, leading to the cancellation of more than 150 flights.

AER Lingus staff remaining after the airline axes hundreds of staff will see their wages and conditions cut to the levels of lower cost rivals Ryanair and Easyjet.

A DANISH pilot felt he had to choose between following regulations set by the Irish Aviation Authority and rules issued by Ryanair in deciding not to operate a return flight that would have required him to work in excess of daily safety limits, an Employment Appeals Tribunal in Dublin heard yesterday.

A SENIOR Ryanair manager has admitted the airline required pilots to confirm they had no outstanding industrial relations claims against the firm before they could be considered for promotion.

A FORMER Ryanair pilot claims he was repeatedly passed over for promotion because he was among a group of pilots who had taken an industrial relations claim against the airline before the courts.

THE cabin crew union at Aer Lingus has said it will not be bound by the deadline the airline has imposed for agreement on its €74 million cost-cutting plan.

Trade unions at Aer Lingus say they are determined to oppose any plans by the airline to outsource jobs in an effort to cut costs.

IMPACT trade union has finally been forced to abandon pay and recognition claims it was taking against Ryanair on behalf of its pilots because the act under which it was pursuing the cases has been drastically weakened by a Supreme Court ruling.

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.

Pilots and management at Aer Lingus have reached a deal to resolve the dispute over the airline's planned new Belfast base and avert the threat of flight chaos this week.

Thousands of air passengers are at risk of having no flights as Aer Lingus management and unions return to the Labour Relations Commission.

Last-ditch talks between Aer Lingus bosses and pilots' representatives are continuing today in a bid to avert a 'lock-out' next week.

Both sides in the Aer Lingus dispute arrived at the Labour Relations Commission just before lunchtime today for talks aimed at averting the impending standoff between management and pilots.

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.

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 pilots are optimistic that a solution can be found in a row with the airline’s management over job conditions at a new hub in Belfast, they said today.

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.

Embattled Aer Lingus chiefs tonight vowed to carry almost a quarter of its passengers facing disruption during next week’s planned pilots’ strike.

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.

Almost 500 Aer Lingus pilots have served strike notice on the company over the terms and conditions being offered as part of a plan to recruit new pilots in Belfast.

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 today won an appeal against a judgment that gave the Labour Court the right to investigate a row between the airline and its pilots.