Flight chaos looms as further strikes threatened
Aer Lingus said last night it is continuing to scour the world for aircraft and crews, and is not ruling out borrowing them, even from Ryanair. It is hoping to announce modest progress in that search today but insisted that given the current holiday season, there will be very few planes available.
As that search continues, the two days of action, grounding up to 50,000 passengers next Tuesday and Wednesday, remains almost a certainty. According to the IMPACT trade union and the Irish Airline Pilots’ Association, it will only be the start if the airline does honour collective agreements and implement the same terms and conditions for pilots at the new Belfast base as are currently enjoyed by pilots in the rest of Ireland.
