DUBLIN (GERMANY) – Ryanair is set to close its base at Frankfurt Hahn Airport and likely to do the same at Berlin Tegel and Duesseldorf Airports by the end of the summer. This has come in the wake of German pilots rejecting proposed pay cuts, the Irish airline said on Tuesday.
The moves include a number of pilot job cuts, which is not disclosed yet, and has come after a slight majority of German pilots voted against a proposed deal of savings that according to Ryanair were necessary due to COVID-19 disruptions, the airline said.
Ryanair said in a memo to German pilots, “We must move on with alternative measures to deliver savings, which regrettably will mean base closures and dismissals.”
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