Evidence of poor logic or Irish Roulette
From a respected industry analyst in San Diego:-
Aer Lingus' Board of Directors reaffirmed the urgency in achieving €97m in cost savings as outlined in its Transformation Plan, following a review of its progress.
Aer Lingus has accepted an invitation from the National Implementation Body to conclude negotiations with employee representatives under the auspices of the Labour Relations Commission. At the conclusion of the talks, the Board and Management will meet to review the results, and in the event that the required €97m savings have not been agreed in full, will proceed to implement an alternative means of delivering the savings within the timeframe set out under the plan. Before you read on - go over that last sentence one more time. Focus on "alternative means". The next part is really funny.
Alternative means "could include further reductions in capacity", which obviously leads to additional redundancies. The carrier stated that while the preference will be for such redundancies to be on a voluntary basis, compulsory redundancies cannot be ruled out. Read veiled threat.
So it goes like this Paddy - either you "retire", or we fire you. If you fight that, we will sell our planes, kill the company and still fire you. Do you get that Paddy? Of course Paddy does not buy this. He knows the company won't die - the government won't let that happen. So he will not play along. This is a game called Irish roulette and, unlike Russian roulette which is played with a gun, this one is played with an airline.