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More strike calls cloud summer for European low-cost airlines
Europe's low-cost airlines are facing more strikes this summer as staff in Spain and France announced new walkouts on Tuesday.
Trade unions representing Ryanair cabin crew in Belgium, France, Italy, Portugal and Spain have called for strikes this coming weekend, while easyJet's operations in Spain face a nine-day strike next month.
Damien Mourgues, a representative of the SNPNC trade union at Ryanair in France, said the airline doesn't respect rest time laws and is calling for a raise for cabin crew still paid at the minimum wage.
Cabin crew will go on strike on Saturday and Sunday.
A strike on the weekend of June 12 and 13 already prompted the cancellation of about 40 Ryanair flights in France, or about a quarter of the total.
Ryanair's low-cost rival easyJet also faces nine days of strikes on different days in July at the Barcelona, Malaga and Palma de Mallorca airports.
The union said Tuesday that Spanish easyJet cabin crew, with a base pay of 950 euros per month, have the lowest wages of the airline's European bases.
The strikes come as air travel has rebounded since Covid-19 restrictions have been lifted.
But many airlines, which laid off staff during the pandemic, are having trouble rehiring enough workers and have been forced to cancel flights, including easyJet, which has been particularly hard hit by employee shortages.
On Monday, the European Transport Workers' Federation called "on passengers not to blame the workers for the disasters in the airports, the cancelled flights, the long queues and longer time for check-ins, and lost luggage or delays caused by decades of corporate greed and a removal of decent jobs in the sector."
The Federation said it expects "the chaos the aviation sector is currently facing will only grow over the summer as workers are pushed to the brink."
- Aviation sector 'chaos' -
In Spain, trade unions have urged Ryanair cabin crews to strike from June 24 to July 2 to secure their "fundamental labour rights" and "decent work conditions for all staff".
Ryanair staff in Portugal plan to go on strike from Friday to Sunday to protest work conditions, as are employees in Belgium.
Ryanair boss Michael O'Leary has been dismissive of the strikes.
"We operate two and half thousand flights every day," he said earlier this month in Belgium.
"Most of those flights will continue to operate even if there is a strike in Spain by some Mickey Mouse union or if the Belgian cabin crew unions want to go on strike over here," he added in a media conference.
In Italy, a 24-hour strike is set to hit Ryanair operations on Saturday with pilots and cabin crew calling for the airline to respect the minimum wages set for the sector under a national agreement.
S.F.Lacroix--CPN