The Irish low-cost airline Ryanair has said it has agreed to cut salaries with pilots and flight attendants.
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Irish low-cost airline Ryanair is cutting fewer jobs than originally planned after several cost-cutting agreements. “We have not finalized the number yet,” said Ryanair manager Neal McMahon in a telephone interview with Reuters. “We originally said there would be 3,000 layoffs, but we were able to reduce that number significantly.”
Ryanair has reached agreements on savings in personnel costs with 97 percent of all pilots and with more than 90 percent of all flight attendants. Talks are still being held with the cabin crew in Germany and with Belgian pilots.
Like all other airlines, Laudamotion’s mother, Ryanair, is trying to respond to the business slump due to travel restrictions in the corona crisis with drastic cost reductions. Between April and June, around 99 percent of Ryanair’s planes were on the ground. Since then, flight operations have also been very sluggish.
The low-cost airline recently announced that it would reduce the already low flight capacity by around 20 percent in September and October. The reason is weak demand, especially in countries badly affected by the Corona crisis such as Spain, France and Sweden.
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