PPRuNe Forums - View Single Post - Ryanair closing bases
View Single Post
Old 25th Sep 2019, 17:05
  #14 (permalink)  
sonicbum
 
Join Date: Mar 2012
Location: Having a margarita on the beach
Posts: 2,423
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes on 0 Posts
Originally Posted by jmmoric
Looks like Ryanair is trying to capitalize on the fall of Thomas Cook, and an increase of available pilots on the market, by pressing their own crew out, and hiring new at lower cost.

If that is the case, I sincerely hope pilots will go for other airlines.
Very likely, also consider the fact that ryr pilots have spent the last couple of years trying to increase their package through unions across Europe, successfully in most cases and this is also a way for the management to re-establish who has the stick.
sonicbum is offline