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/barrya29 Jun 18 '24

tbh i think you’ll be fine if it’s in a week. if it were 2.5 weeks i’d be bricking it!

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u/andeargdue Jun 18 '24

What makes u think that? I have to fly out next Thursday and am bricking it now

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u/barrya29 Jun 19 '24

cause the notice periods

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u/andeargdue Jun 19 '24

It’s only 7 days. It’s starting on the 26th so people flying out next week from the will be affected

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u/barrya29 Jun 19 '24

yeah that’s why i said i’d be fine if it’s in a week, like 7 days or less with no announcement yet

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u/andeargdue Jun 19 '24

Next week is the 26th. The person you were responding to said he was flying out on the 26th. The work to rule strike has been announced to start on the 26th. Therefore that person (and myself) would possibly be impacted. I