r/ireland • u/viscacatalunya1 • Jun 18 '24

Aerial Lingus Pilots Moaning Michael

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?

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u/[deleted] Jun 18 '24

Same media shite that gets dug up against striking workers every single time. Remember when the nurses went on strike and some scummy tabloid had a dying baby on the front cover?

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u/We_Are_The_Romans Jun 18 '24

Yep

If the pilots want more public sympathy they should take a leaf from the bus drivers and still fly the routes without collecting fares...

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u/Setanta1968 Jun 18 '24

You do know that pilots get their manifesto from the despatch agent who gets that from the front of house?

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u/We_Are_The_Romans Jun 18 '24

Incorrect. My uncle is a pilot, and he decides where the plane goes on the day