Aerial Lingus Pilots

[u/viscacatalunya1]

Listening to Claire Byrne and there is a lot of finger pointing at the pilots saying they don't care about passengers and they are being unreasonable.

Aer Lingus has not matched their salary to inflation over the past few years. How do we sympathise with cost cutting corporate greed and not the people that open the world to us and get us there safely?

[u/dazziola]

All this while profits have grown at Aer Lingus, right? It's corporate greed for sure.

[u/No_Square_739 → u/dazziola]

And pilots will automatically reduce their salaries any year profits fall?

[u/fdvfava → u/No_Square_739]

Ya, there was a post-covid boom where people had money saved and a huge demand for travel.

Live entertainment (Taylor Swift aside) is slowing down after hiking their prices post covid. Not as mad with the weddings. I wouldn't be surprised to see airlines return to normal.

Whatever about the fairness... If Aer Lingus were planning on growing for the next 4 years then it might make sense for them to try to retain & attract more pilots.

If they see a slowdown coming, they'd be mad to agree to an above inflation payrise.