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Ryanair warns on-going strikes could force schedule review
Ryanair may review its winter schedule if pilots and cabin crew continue industrial action — and the airline warned jobs could be cut.
Irish pilots are due to strike tomorrow, Tuesday July 24 and Belgian, Portuguese and Spanish cabin crews are to strike on Wednesday and Thursday this week.
Over 300 flights have been cancelled from its daily schedule of 2,400 on Wednesday and Thursday.
In a statement, Ryanair said: "While we continue to actively engage with pilot and cabin crew unions across Europe, we expect further strikes over the peak summer period as we are not prepared to concede to unreasonable demands that will compromise either our low fares or our highly efficient model.
"If these unnecessary strikes continue to damage customer confidence and forward prices/yields in certain country markets then we will have to review our winter schedule, which may lead to fleet reductions at disrupted bases and job losses in markets where competitor employees are interfering in our negotiations with our people and their unions.
"We cannot allow our customers flights to be unnecessarily disrupted by a tiny minority of pilots."
Lisa
Lisa joined Travel Weekly nearly 25 years ago as technology reporter and then sailed around the world for a couple of years as cruise correspondent, before becoming deputy editor. Now freelance, Lisa writes for various print and web publications, edits Corporate Traveller’s client magazine, Gateway, and works on the acclaimed Remembering Wildlife series of photography books, which raise awareness of nature’s most at-risk species and helps to fund their protection.
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