Ryanair pilots agree pay freeze
18.03.09
Ryanair pilots have agreed to a 12-month pay freeze after the airline threatened them with a 10% pay cut. After a round of intensive negotiations at the airline's 31 pilot bases across Europe, pilots voted in favour of a freeze with productivity increases as the preferred alternative to a salary cut.
As a result of the agreement, Ryanair say that the average pilot pay will remain unchanged over the next year. Ryanair’s David O’Brien said: ‘These are extraordinarily difficult times in the airline industry. We will suffer losses in both our third and fourth quarters of the current year.'
‘Our pilots have recognised the difficulties we face and are making their contribution by agreeing to this pay freeze and productivity increase as the preferred alternative to pay cuts.‘
Meanwhile, Ryanair has announced that it will open seven new routes to and from Memmingen, around 75kms west of Munich, from May. The new routes include Dublin and Stansted.
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