Ryanair have released a statement saying that they do not expect any interruptions in their 3,000 daily flights during August and September as a result of the strike that is being encouraged by two cabin crew unions in Spain. The airline reports that they have already reached a labour agreement with the main cabin crew union, the CC.OO, which will give them enough resources to cover any further action.
The statement says that USO and Sitcpla "represent a small part of our Spanish cabin crew, who have led a series of ill-supported strikes in June and July that had little or no impact on Ryanair flights to or from Spain."
Only last month, they continue, "Ryanair operated more than 3,000 flights a day and transported a record 16.8 million passengers, many of them to or from Spain."
The company believes that these ‘latest threats’, which affect a ‘small part’ of Spanish cabin crew, will not have any impact on their flights. “A small number of flights in Spain were cancelled or delayed in July," they admit, "but this was mainly due to ATC (air traffic control) strikes and flight delays not related to the strikes."
Ryanair says that the agreement they have with the CC.OO, the biggest representative union for cabin crew in Spain, includes “immediate salary increases plus guaranteed fixed, instead of variable salary, consolidation of minimum annual holidays, and a fixed schedule of five days of work and three days of rest.” In short, they say, "the best cabin crew conditions in aviation in Europe".
There is still no agreement in place for those cabin crew represented by USO and Sitcpla.
