Some 244 Aer Lingus flights have been cancelled ahead of industrial action and a strike, affecting up to 35,000 passengers
Aer Lingus management has invited pilots to talks ahead of their industrial action planned for later this week.
The Irish Air Line Pilots' Association will begin an indefinite work to rule from Wednesday in their pay dispute with the airline.The dispute also resulted in two planes – an A321XLR – not being allocated to Aer Lingus, according to Aer Lingus Chief Corporate Affairs Officer Donal Moriarty."Everything is a possibility but at this stage we're not considering an all-out strike," he said.
"The company have finally written to us and asked us for a meeting - however they have attached pre-conditions to that invitation of what we can and only can talk at the meeting.Capt Tighe said while pre-conditions are"not a reasonable position", things are moving in the right direction. "We do see it as positive that having not communicated with us at all about having another meeting they now are," he said.
"We are discussing the aspect of the conditions with them so I see this as a positive development but I couldn't begin to say where it's going to go".Asked if he had a message to affected passengers, Capt Tighe put the blame on management."Management have put us in this position where we've had to exercise the same rights that everybody else has.
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