Ryanair’s threat on jobs extends to pilots at Lauda in Austria
Ryanair's planned cull of pilots has reached the group’s Austrian subsidiary, with workers there told that the positions of 30 flight-deck crews are at risk. Laudamotion CE Andreas Gruber said in a letter to employees that the jobs will need to go if an agreement on savings and new flight rosters can’t be reached with unions in the next 2 weeks. A spokesman for the German pilots’ labour group Union Vereinigung Cockpit confirmed the letter was sent to the carrier’s staff. Ryanair said this week it would need to cut 900 jobs as it grapples with slumping fares, uncertainty around Brexit and a slowdown in expansion forced by the grounding of Boeing’s 737 Max jetliner. The letter from Gruber seems to offer more scope for negotiation than at Ryanair, which said posts need to go and that the only question is where. <br/>
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Ryanair’s threat on jobs extends to pilots at Lauda in Austria
Ryanair's planned cull of pilots has reached the group’s Austrian subsidiary, with workers there told that the positions of 30 flight-deck crews are at risk. Laudamotion CE Andreas Gruber said in a letter to employees that the jobs will need to go if an agreement on savings and new flight rosters can’t be reached with unions in the next 2 weeks. A spokesman for the German pilots’ labour group Union Vereinigung Cockpit confirmed the letter was sent to the carrier’s staff. Ryanair said this week it would need to cut 900 jobs as it grapples with slumping fares, uncertainty around Brexit and a slowdown in expansion forced by the grounding of Boeing’s 737 Max jetliner. The letter from Gruber seems to offer more scope for negotiation than at Ryanair, which said posts need to go and that the only question is where. <br/>
