Ryanair’s Europe destinations
Further to industrial action by pilots in Ireland, and cabin crew in Spain, Portugal, Italy and Belgium…
Ryanair pilots in Belgium have announced that they will strike on 10 August as the industrial dispute at Europe’s largest airline escalates.
Earlier this morning, the Swedish pilots union confirmed that they too will strike on the same date….
The German pilots union VC has also backed strike action…
…In addition, yesterday, Ryanair’s pilots based in the Netherlands voted almost unanimously to join the campaign of industrial action…
Ryanair dispute sees pilots in Belgium set to strike (RTE)
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Was talking to a chap that had been for an interview with Ryanair earlier in the summer. He was looking for a flight attendant job and got it but decided not to take it due to working conditions.
He sez that he would only be paid for time spent in the air and any work before or after that counted for nothing
come gather round children it’s high time ye learned bout a hero named homer and a devil named burns.
We’ll march til we drop the girls and the fellas, we’ll fight til the death or else fold like umbrellas
We’ll march day and night by the big cooling tower they have the plant but we have the power
Where’s my Burritto?! Where’s my Burritto?! Where’s my Burritto?!
Strange people the Irish.
They welcome with open arms foreign multi-nationals which pay very little tax but deride one of Ireland’s greatest home-grown companies.
If you don’t want to work for Ryanair under their terms don’t accept their offer of a job.
Don’t forget duckie, YOU’RE Irish too. Or you claim to be.
So you’re as mad as the rest of us.
Half-Irish.
So only half as mad.
The lack of full Irishness would lead me to the conclusion of Twice as mad.
Possibly.
Perhaps the British half is too dominant.
Unusually good piece in the FT from an outsider about that.
https://t.co/Qms9D9TOyc?amp=1
I believe they call that ‘splitting-hairs’, my dear.
How many of the pilots are even Irish? You sound like you know,care to tell?
This is purely anecdotal, but on nearly every Ryanir flight on which I was paying attention, the pilot was Irish. And this was often on flights that didn’t include Dublin.
Any chance on putting a guesstimate of the number of flights in your anecdotal study? Are we talking 2 or 200? ;-)
Mmm – 50? Fewer, maybe. All the pilots flying between Brussels & Spain seem to be Irish.
If you don’t want the people who work for you to ask for better conditions don’t employ humans.
Ryanair pilots out of Dublin earn between €150,000-200,000 a year.
Cabin crew earn between €24,000-40,000 a year depending on experience.Not bad for flogging paninis.
Up the workers !
Absolutely.
Even the ones whose hard-earned holiday plans are being ruined by striking pilots on up to €200,00 a year.
Champagne socialism at its finest baby.
Yes, Ryanair should have thought of that before causing the strike.
Do pilots earn that much? Not bad. They’re basically bus drivers in nicer uniforms.
Apparently after a certain amount money isn’t a factor in job satisfaction.
Are they striking for more money?
few corrections, Ollie.
THE GOVERNMENT welcome with open arms foreign multi-nationals, which pay very little tax (also THE GOVERNMENT who ensure these low tax rates, not the rest of us) .. deriding Ryanair, comes easy. Just use them a few times and anyone would have bad feelings towards them as a company. Eg. I was flying with them recently and went to check in at the airport 2 hours before the short flight, and they said i was minutes too late and had to pay an extra €55. They make you pay if you want to sit beside someone, thats plain mean spirited. I won’t go on, they have countless customer-unfriendly policies.
Anyway, why do you think “the irish” are being strange for not liking Ryanair SOLELY because it’s home grown? Incredibly stupid remark. Being home-grown isn’t enough to warrant blind allegiance. It’s the kind of remark that makes me think you must be Irish.
Until the terms are sh*te everywhere. gotta take a stand somewhere
The chickens are finally coming home to roost.
Flying home
Even
The sweet sweet sound
Sure its all fly by wire these days anyway.
I see an advert…
Fly Ryanair! We unite Europe on the ground too !
I sincerely hope they pay you for that.
No-one has yet complimented Bodger on the headline? – i will, good headline, Bodger.
Thank you, Rob.
Yes,thank you,Rob.
It has been a busy day here at Chateau Broadsheet but now it’s time for scoops.
Cheers and bottoms up Ollie, at a quick glance I can see you’ve been busy, going to pour a large G + T and scroll through, I trust it’ll be worth my trouble ;-)
+1
SLUUUUURRRRPPPP!!!
Slurp is right, sooooo cool and refreshing and going down like there’s no tomorrow, Sláinte x
Up the strikers!
O’Leary will not see his bonus again in our lifetime.
MOL is longest-serving airline CEO of recent years, I think rumours of his decline are greatly exaggerated.
Still, no one is infallible.
Yup.
He brought low cost travel to hundreds of millions of people,built a fantastic Irish company from virtually nothing and created thousands of jobs.
He has more find financial nous than the entire Irish government and brought fantastic returns to shareholders of which fortunately I’ve been one for years.
Without him you’d still be paying a fortune to cross the Irish Sea.
The strikers,many on a good whack for working far fewer hours than the passengers they’re affecting, should be careful not to kill the goose that laid the golden egg.
Even Hitler built the autobahns …
Jesus wept…
“shareholders of which fortunately I’ve been one for years.”
There is the crux of Ollie’s support for RyanAir.
Shareholders are parasites.
Do you contribute towards a pension scheme ? What do you think the pension fund invests in ?
No, I don’t, actually.
Aw he was hoping capitalism had made you complicit in reducing worker’s rights.
The public sector pensions funds are invested in shares.
The unions that Nigel thinks are so wonderful invest their funds in shares.
Does that make them parasites ?
As the great Margaret Thatcher once said the problem with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people’s money to spend.
No. It means they have a stake in workers who provide profits for their funds bring treated fairly.
+1 Nigel.
“The great Margaret Thatcher” well your username is accurate anyway, Cromwell