Aer Lingus cancels 120 flights on June 29th following Ialpa strike

Ialpa president Captain Mark Tighe accused Aer Lingus of escalating the dispute through a 'campaign of antagonism' against union members. Photograph: Alan Betson / The Irish Timeshas cancelled 120 flights on Saturday, June 29th following the announcement on Friday of an eight-hour strike that day by members of the“Aer Lingus has re-timed long-haul services on both June 28th and 29th June in order to avoid cancellation of these services,” it said on Saturday.

Aer Lingus Regional flights, operated by Emerald Airlines, are unaffected by IALPA’s industrial action and will operate as scheduled, it added.Their move came just an hour after Aer Lingus’s announcement that it would cancel 124 flights over five days from Wednesday to contain the impact of a strict and open-ended work to rule that Ialpa has announced will begin on that day in its ongoing campaign for a 23.88 per cent pay increase.

That included a threat to take High Court action against him and other union executive members “for alleged unlawful conduct” over a claimed increase in illness among pilots. “Ialpa refutes this allegation in the strongest terms,” Capt Tighe said. Capt Tighe argued that the scale of next week’s cancellations showed the extent to which the carrier relied on pilots’ goodwill and flexibility.Ialpa’s work to rule leaves Aer Lingus without the flexibility in pilot rosters it needs to operate its full holiday-season schedule.

“Ialpa’s decision is clearly designed to inflict maximum damage on passengers’'s travel plans at the peak of the holiday season,” said the airline.

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