Ryanair strikes

Hundreds of Ryanair flights could be impacted once a strike planned by Spanish unions go ahead in June and July, after they failed to come to an agreement ...

In fact, you're actually entitled to either a full refund, or being booked on an alternative flight to your destination. USO and STCPLA said in a joint statement that Ryanair lacked commitment to dialogue and accused the airline of acting in bad faith. Depending on the length of the planned flight and the delay, Ryanair fliers could get up to £520 compensation, according to Air Help. The Mirror has asked Ryanair how many of those flights would've been staffed by Spanish crews taking part in the strikes, and how wide the airline predicts the disruption will be. On June 24 alone - the first day of the planned industrial action - ten Ryanair flights are heading from Barcelona to UK airports, five from Madrid, two from Seville, 16 from Majorca, and five from Ibiza. A spokesperson for Ryanair has played down the impact of the strikes, saying the airline will run more flights than in its peak summer-season schedule of 2019.

The likelihood of strike action at Ryanair was always high simply because of the background to current events. With lockdowns and travel bans unions really did ...

This is about increments to pay, changes in seniority rules and allowances and so on. But the very fact that folk are even talking about strike action shows us that there's a risk to all of these airline shares. But the workforce doesn't seem to be all that cheerful about matters. Recent announcements by the much smaller USO and SITCPLA unions are a distraction from their own failures to deliver agreements after three years of negotiations and we believe that their strike calls will not be supported by our Spanish crews. Thus the bad news for Ryanair, that strikes are indeed going to happen. This is what is leading to those waves of cancellations that keep happening.

Cabin crew working for low-cost carrier Ryanair will be striking this summer after pay talks failed.

They’re said to be coordinating with Ryanair unions in France, Portugal, Belgium and Italy in preparation for the scenario where Ryanair refuse to return to the negotiating table. Officially there are no more strike dates outside of the six outlined yesterday, however, both the USO and SITCPLA unions have said they are engaging with unions across Europe to organise a continent-wide strike if their demands are not met. In a press conference in Madrid yesterday, the unions representing Ryanair cabin crew announced they would be taking six days of strike action over the next few weeks.

Unions for cabin crews in Spain are threatening widescale industrial action amid tense pay talks with the Irish airline.

She described the strike threat as a “distraction” and said: “Ryanair has negotiated collective agreements covering 90% of our people across Europe. In recent months we have been negotiating improvements to those agreements as we work through the Covid recovery phase. But in a statement to the Irish Mirror the strike threat was dismissed by Ryanair as a “distraction” and the airline claimed that workers will not support the strike calls. Irish travel expert Eoghan Corry warned that the unions’ strike threats could impact on airlines like Ryanair. He said: “The power that a union has in the aviation sector in the modern age is on forward bookings, creating uncertainty and reducing forward bookings at airlines like Ryanair.”

The selected dates for the strikes begin next week, including June 24, 25, 26 and 30 and July 1 and 2.

"Those negotiations are going well and we do not expect widespread disruption this summer. As reported by Sur in English, workers have demanded that Ryanair returns to the negotiating table over their working conditions, since it is the only airline operating in Spain without a collective agreement. According to the unions, Ryanair cabin crew are not being allowed the 22 days of holiday and 14 public holidays a year they are entitled to in Spain. A spokesperson for Ryanair told the Mirror last week: "Ryanair has negotiated collective agreements covering 90% of our people across Europe. In recent months we have been negotiating improvements to those agreements as we work through the Covid recovery phase.

Spanish trade union USO said Spanish workers on the payroll of the Irish budget carrier will stage a walkout on 24, 25, 26 and 30 June and 1 and 2 July. For ...

SITCPLA vice president Manuel Lodeiro said SITCPLA and USO were the only two unions “chosen by the [Ryanair] workers to negotiate their conditions”, claiming that CCOO did not represent any Ryanair staff. “Ryanair has negotiated collective agreements covering 90% of our people across Europe,” the spokesperson said. Ryanair is the only international company in our country without a collective agreement.”