Pilots body is ‘sitting on its hands’, says Ryanair

Ryanair has accused a pilots union of “sitting on its hands” for more than two days while thousands of passengers have their holiday plans disrupted.

As the airline’s directly-employed pilots, members of Fórsa trade union, yesterday picketed outside the airline’s offices in Swords in a second one-day stoppage, Ryanair was making contingency arrangements for a third stoppage on Tuesday.

The airline has cancelled 16 of its 290 flights scheduled for that day. It said all 2,500 passengers who will be affected have been contacted and will be “readily re-accommodated [or refunded] on other Ryanair flights between Ire-UK routes over the next seven days”.