Ryanair cabin crew announce ANOTHER strike – with staff from five countries walking out

The low-cost airline is facing further disruption as unions from five countries confirmed the strike just hours after the end of a 24-hour walkout by pilots and cabin crew in Germany.

Staff in Spain, Portugal, Belgium, Italy and the Netherlands are going on strike this time.

Ryanair has accused the unions of not wanting to meet or negotiate but representatives say this is not true.

They claim the airline wants to negotiate with the individual unions of the countries involved whilst workers want a collective agreement.

The two Spanish unions involved, the USO and Sitcpla, said: "Ryanair has once again demonstrated that it is not willing to comply with the legislation of the countries in which it operates.”

The unions say they have already registered the strike date and "are waiting expectantly to know what attitude the company will present."

Spain's USO union said: “We are sorry to provoke a new setback and we have tried to give notice as soon as possible, but it is necessary to cut the problem at the root so that in the future the company complies with the legislation for workers and users."

The strike was announced today following a meeting with the European Commission. The walkout is once again over pay and conditions.

Ryanair disputes there will be disruption on September 28 and expects the vast majority of its cabin crew across Europe will work as normal.


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It also expects a significant majority of its cabin crew in Spain, Italy, Belgium, the Netherlands and Portugal will also work normally, as they have during previous strikes, and accordingly, there will not be any “travel chaos” or “widespread disruptions”.

Ryanair’s Kenny Jacobs said in a statement: “Repeated false claims made by these unions about “travel chaos” have proven to be unfounded.

“While we regret the limited strike actions that have taken place this summer, in all cases we have judiciously pre-cancelled a small number of our 2,500 daily flights in order to minimise customer disruption and inconvenience."

He continued: "We object to these lurid and inaccurate press headlines, which wrongly to refer to “travel chaos”, despite the fact that during the seven days of partial strikes by a small minority of our pilots and cabin crew this summer, there has been very little disruption and absolutely no 'chaos'.

"If there is a further unsuccessful cabin crew strike on the Sept 28, as we demonstrated in Germany yesterday, Ryanair will pre-advise customers of a small number of flight cancellations.

"The overwhelming majority of Ryanair’s flights and services that day will operate as normal, and we will carry the overwhelming majority of the 400,000 passengers who will be scheduled to fly with us that day.”

As a result of the strike in Germany on Wednesday, Ryanair cancelled 150 of 400 flights.

Sun Online Travel has contacted Ryanair for additional comment.

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