This afternoon.
Swords, County Dublin
Pilots protesting at CityJet offices as the airline has recommenced flights with Irish registered aircraft, but Dublin pilots remain grounded by temporary lay-offs.
Cityjet’s Dublin based pilots remain temporarily laid off as a result of the crisis gripping the aviation industry around the world and the airline plans to close its Dublin base.
But according to the Irish Airline Pilots Association, which is part of the union Fórsa, the decision to continue flying Irish registered aircraft using pilots based elsewhere is effectively an “offshoring” of Dublin based pilots work.
Cityjet’s Dublin pilots to protest at HQ (RTÉ)
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Sounds like what the ferries did before…. shame on them
Well the airline industry is a major contributor to global warming
Now is the best time to go forward not backwards
No point in piling billions into this industry only to then pile billions into fighting the destruction caused by this industry
Let’s stay local and enjoy our country
The airline industry is responsible for 0.6% of worldwide carbon emissions. “minor” would be far far more accurate than major.
Focusing on an industry thats so essential to so many jobs, and to so many lifestyles (how many people live in places other their family these days and need to fly home?) is not a good use of environmental political capital. Its not going to be easy or particularly useful to change.
Better to focus on the actually major polluting industries, and change them. Countries around the world are still building massive new coal plants today for example.
People moan about this kind of stuff but Ryanair is the worlds most successful airline due to it being the cheapest.
Seems money trumps morals. Who knew?
Cheap money fueled the property crises that fueled the crash cheap flights fueled global warming that will lead to a worse crash
And of course we will all be paying for it with massive taxes and fines
Don’t think I ever thought pilots would be worried about finding/keeping a job. It always seemed like such a plum gig.
I was just saying that this morning,
Bit of a whiff off of those signs. You’d wonder about the person who approved that wording.
These people want us to bale them out, where did the profits made by the likes
of British Airways, Ryan Air even Aer Lingus go, and if travel by air transport is
allowed back before the virus is eliminated in the rest of world, the situation
will revert back of square one, in other words what was the lockdown for the
last three months about…..surely what has happened in New Zealand in the
last few days should ring alarm bells.