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More than 250 office jobs go at Ryanair

Friday, 15 May 20203 min read
More than 250 office jobs go at Ryanair

Ryanair has cut more than 250 jobs in its offices in Dublin, Stansted, Madrid and Wroclaw.

The jobs have been terminated through a combination of probation/fixed term contract ends, resignations and redundancies.

Ryanair says none of those affected will be required to return to work on June 1 when these offices reopen.

The airline said it is continuing to meet with pilot and cabin crew unions across Europe to finalise up to 3,000 job cuts and 20% pay cuts.

Further announcements on crew job losses and pay cuts are expected before the end of this month.

Ryanair has operated less than 1% of its normal flight schedules during April, May and June, and this week announced that only 40% of its normal schedules would operate in July 2020.

For the full year, Ryanair now expects to carry less than 100 million passengers, over 35% lower than the 155 million target for the year ended March 2021.

People director Darrell Hughes said: "This is a very painful time for Ryanair, our crews and our people supporting operations from our Dublin, Stansted, Madrid and Wroclaw offices.

"Regrettably, we will now have a small number of compulsory redundancies to right size our support teams for a year when we will carry less than 100 million passengers due to the Covid-19 crisis.

"These job losses were communicated to individual team members this week."