Ryanair strikes have begun and will go on until next year, affecting many flights

A long list of airports are likely to face the impact

A new batch of Ryanair strikes have just started and they’re set to carry on until next year.

Union members of the airline’s cabin crew in Spain started striking on Monday, August 8, in a bid to get better pay and working conditions. They are expected to strike Monday to Thursday every week until January 7, 2023.

Airports in Valencia, Girona, Santiago de Compostela, Ibiza, Malaga, Madrid, Barcelona, Palma and Alicante are likely to be affected by the five-month-long strike action.

Lidia Aransanz, leader of Union group USO, said: “As the company has been unable to listen to the workers, we have been forced to call new strike days.”

While passengers hoping for a holiday away in Spain will no doubt have concerns, Ryanair remains adamant that the action will have “zero impact” on the company’s Spanish flights or schedules in August and September.

Ryanair’s Spanish cabin crew went on strike back in June and July over the same issues, backed by labour organisations SITCPLA, the Airlines Cabin Crew Independent Union, and USO.

A Ryanair spokesperson told JOE: “These two tiny unions who represent only a handful of our Spanish cabin crew have held a number of poorly supported ‘strikes’ in June and July which have had little or no impact on Ryanair’s flights to or from Spain. In July alone Ryanair operated over 3,000 daily flights and carried a record 16.8m passengers – many of them to/from Spain. Ryanair expects that these latest threatened strikes, which involve only a handful of our Spanish cabin crew, will have zero impact on our Spanish flights or schedules in August or September.

“On a point of correction, while a tiny number of Ryanair flights in Spain were cancelled or delayed in July, this was mostly due to ATC strikes and flight delays. No flights were cancelled in July due to these unsuccessful and poorly supported strikes by these two minority unions (USO & SITCPLA) who represent only a small handful of Ryanair Spanish cabin crew. The vast majority of Ryanair’s Spanish cabin crew are represented by the CCOO union who have already reached a labour agreement with Ryanair which covers most of our Spanish cabin crew.”

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