Impact to talk with Aer Lingus on rosters

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.

Cabin crew union Impact last night accepted an invite from management to talks on the rosters “without preconditions”.

In a letter to cabin crew, Robert Somers, the firm’s executive for flight operations, said the changes to rosters demanded by Impact were “not reasonable and cannot be delivered without fundamental changes to the way in which you work and your rosters are organised”.