Some 30,000 European passengers will be impacted by Ryanair pilot and cabin crew strikes on Friday. The German pilots’ union said it will participate in the walkout with 1,000 German cabin crew members set to join them.
Ryanair will cancel 150 flights scheduled Friday due to cabin crew strikes across Europe, the budget airline said Wednesday.
The Ireland-based carrier said about 8 percent of its 2,400 daily flights would be scrapped due to 24-hour walkouts in Germany, Italy, Portugal, Spain, the Netherlands and Belgium over pay and conditions.
In Germany, the pilots’ union “Vereinigung Cockpit” announced it would participate in the walkouts. The Verdi union, which represents about 1,000 cabin crew, said it would hold rallies in Berlin and Frankfurt on Friday.
Verdi officials said discussions about whether to participate in a walkout on Friday were continuing and a final decision would be made by Thursday evening.
The planned walkouts coincide with the beginning of the autumn school break in several German states.
“The previous offers of #Ryanair are not enough!” Verdi wrote on Twitter. “Therefore #verdi calls for rallies in Berlin-Schönefeld and Frankfurt on Friday.”
Some 30,000 passengers will be affected by the strike on Friday. Ryanair has described workers’ action as “unnecessary,” pointing to “significant progress in recent weeks with our union negotiations … in Ireland, UK, Italy and Germany,” the airline said in a statement on Tuesday.
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