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Ryanair to hold talks with Irish pilots today to avoid further strikes
Ryanair is to meet with its Dublin-based pilots for the first time in almost a month to try to avoid further damaging strikes after last Friday’s industrial action which led to the grounding of 15% of its entire services.
Kieran Mulvey, the former head of Ireland’s labour relations authority, will mediate between the airline and the Irish pilots’ union Forsa.
Pilots in Ireland were joined on their fifth day of strike action on Friday by pilots in Germany, Belgium, Sweden and the Netherlands. Some 250 flights in and out of Germany were grounded, 104 from Belgium and a further 42 from Sweden and Ireland.
Pilots who are directly employed by Ryanair in Dublin announced last Friday’s strike after the airline said the effects of their earlier industrial action had hit demand to such an extent that it would be forced to cut its Dublin-based fleet from October and shift aircraft and jobs to Poland instead.
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