Aer Lingus Flight Crew Industrial relations thread 2024

There is no common ground to start any negotiation

Going by this and I’m flying out the following weekend makes me think what do I do about flying via uk to get to my destination

potentially bigger problem is the larger number of people who can’t now travel next Saturday on the first day of the primary schools holidays…

Messing with family holidays isn’t going to endear the pilots to the general public, whatever the rights and wrongs of their pay claim and the EI management’s behaviour towards the pilots union.

I wonder would BA/IB pilots pass the pickets if IAG ask them to fly the EI strike- affected planes next Saturday… there would be consternation!

Not sure if this will help you make a decision but 4 of us due to fly out next Thursday to JFK now being rerouted through Heathrow, AE to Heathrow and United to JFK. Just got the email. Our return flight July 15th is unaffected (so far). Does this mean we have to do immigration in JFK now ?

Not a hope for several reasons

Our EI flights depart at 1pm on Saturday 29th.

With the strike ending at exactly that time, is there any prospect our flight will actually go ahead?

What happens on the 29th will depend on several factors, including what schedule of flights EI decides to protect and operate. Since the strike notice was only issued today, they will hardly have worked this out yet.

JFK & LHR will be prioritised anyway

I really hope it goes ahead. It's the only daily flight to our destination, not somewhere they have multiple flights to. Have checked competitor airlines and prices for a family of 5 are extortionate and thas for indirect flights.

Messing around on the app and it seems they are not taking any bookings for any route for 29th

There was no need for the threats from management. Does nothing bar pouring fuel on the fire. Instead of sending threats should be picking up the phone and calling them and asking them to let’s talk about it like adults and we can sure work towards something. There should be a trail of offers and counter offers over the whole 22 months. Maybe hight teens with a bit of flexibility on call might get this done

Aer Lingus mgmt. saying they have not threatened legal action but have questioned the increased sickness recently. Hard to know who to believe here.

From what I can see the main delay to any negotiations kicking off here is that EI want to use an intermediary and IALPA wants to negotiate directly. However, if IALPA have no intention of actually negotiating and it is more a demand of a 24% increase, I don't see this getting resolved any time soon as a precedent would be set in terms of future negotiations with any workers who can severely impact operations.

You can’t claim compensation if you don’t show up