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No Aer Lingus Fliights From Friday

David_itl From United Kingdom, joined Jun 2001, 7144 posts, RR: 14
Posted (10 years 12 months 4 hours ago) and read 1761 times:

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BBC Ceefax reports that EI are to cease flights on Friday following the pilot strike on Thursday. No date set for return to normal operations.

David/MAN

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RJ100 From Russia, joined Nov 2000, 4107 posts, RR: 33
Reply 1, posted (10 years 12 months 4 hours ago) and read 1722 times:

Oh, not good!

Why do the pilots strike??

RJ100

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Daks From Ireland, joined Oct 2001, 158 posts, RR: 0
Reply 2, posted (10 years 12 months 3 hours ago) and read 1655 times:

EI have suspended 2 pilots because they refused to accept new work practices brought in by the airline . I'm not to sure what exactly they refused to do but thats basically it .

Star_world From Ireland, joined Jun 2001, 1234 posts, RR: 0
Reply 3, posted (10 years 12 months 1 hour ago) and read 1579 times:

The press release today from EI confirms this:

http://www.aerlingus.com/cgi-bin/obel01im1/Corporate/display_news.jsp?BV_SessionID=@@@@1743396870.1022624083@@@@&BV_EngineID=hadceeciijkfbedcfigcfcjg.0&P_OID=-8049&Category=0&NEWS_OID=536882114

Apparently, EI say that they will not be in a position to resume normal operations after the strike ends on Friday, but that this will be reviewed on a daily basis.

I suspect that there is a lot more to follow on this story...

star_world

Richcandy From France, joined Aug 2001, 695 posts, RR: 0
Reply 4, posted (10 years 11 months 4 weeks 1 day 8 hours ago) and read 1485 times:

Hi

Do you not think that this is the airline trying to shock the pilots into not going on strike??

We might end up with a much smaller company with just service to LON,MAN,GLA,BHX, FRA,CDG,AMS,NYC,BOS.

Let me know what you think

Rich

SQ325 From Germany, joined Jul 2001, 1437 posts, RR: 8
Reply 5, posted (10 years 11 months 4 weeks 1 day 7 hours ago) and read 1455 times:

Could be the end of EI.
EI management should solve that conflict as soon as possible.
Anyway they are in a bad shape and a strike is not that good for the company.
The amazing thing is that most EI pilots support the position of the 2 guys.
Hopefully this will lead to a good end.

Capt.Picard From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR:
Reply 6, posted (10 years 11 months 4 weeks 1 day 6 hours ago) and read 1414 times:

Yup, things are looking real bad. I hope the conflict is resolved somehow (I have no clue who is to blame, I'm not convinced by the pilot rhetoric on pprune).

Good luck to them, it would be terrible to have so many people laid off....

AerLingus From China, joined Mar 2000, 2371 posts, RR: 0
Reply 7, posted (10 years 11 months 4 weeks 1 day 4 hours ago) and read 1361 times:

Well, that sucks. I hope the airline cuts back to ORD in the states and starts using its codeshares with AA and Oneworld more heavily.

Obviously the airline needs to consider pulling back on their new policies. The company did just fine without them before and service reductions ought to make up for it, that is, assuming the cutbacks are related to financial troubles (most likely).

Get your patchouli stink outta my store!

Decman From United States of America, joined Aug 2001, 107 posts, RR: 0
Reply 8, posted (10 years 11 months 4 weeks 1 day 4 hours ago) and read 1363 times:

Oh no. Does anyone have any guesses on how long this thing will last because I'm flying with them in about 3 weeks. I hope its resolved soon.

Blink182 From Azerbaijan, joined Oct 1999, 5430 posts, RR: 19
Reply 9, posted (10 years 11 months 4 weeks 1 day 2 hours ago) and read 1314 times:

Does anyone know if Oneworld will help fill in? I think it would be wise for AA and/or BA to take the EI trans-atlantic routes for the meantime.

blink

Give me a break, I created this username when I was a kid...

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