Aer Lingus cabin crew to picket airports

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.

It has now emerged that talks aimed at averting further strike action over rosters are unlikely to occur before the start of next week, possibly Tuesday. It is not thought that Impact, which represents the cabin crew, will lodge notice of any further action before those talks occur.

With more than 200 of tomorrow’s scheduled flights cancelled by the end of last week and the majority of the 30,000 passengers who were due to fly either refunded or re-assigned to another day, tomorrow’s action will not see passenger panic at the country’s airports.