Originally Posted by
silverelise
Hello folks, apologies for butting in with an SLF type question but I am trying to comprehend the core issue amongst all the debate here. Is it the case that the problem has been triggered because Ryan Air had to change their concept of calendar year to be an actual calendar year rather than their company year, causing pilots to have reached/exceeded their 900hrs / year limit due to having to include hours from Q1?
That is the party line however many of us speculate it's a bit of a stretch and they're simply short of pilots. So instead of acknowledging that they're insidiously saying "pilots are cancelling your holidays so they can have their own!"... thereby setting up a strawman for the future.
(Disclaimer: post is entirely speculative and is not an attempt at a statement of fact)