900 jobs to go as airline seeks to save €97m

AER LINGUS last night confirmed it is to press ahead with €97 million in cost-saving measures with the loss of almost 900 jobs, 200 more than it had originally intended.

900 jobs to go as airline seeks to save €97m

The company yesterday said it could not accept proposals put forward by worker unions as alternatives to its plans to introduce pay cuts, 676 job losses and changes in pension arrangements.

Management told an extraordinary board meeting of the airline that the collapse of talks on those alternatives had left it with no option but to press ahead with its original plan and also to seek further job losses both in ground and air crew through the grounding of additional aircraft.

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