Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 28 July 2020

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response

Covid-19: Impact on Aviation (resumed)

Mr. Eddie Wilson:

Can I answer the question, please? We have done that throughout Europe with the Vereinigung Cockpit, VC, union. The Deputy will be aware of the comments of the Unite union in the UK, which called us out and said that if other airlines had followed Ryanair’s process of job preservation, they would have preferred to have been dealing with companies like that. Many of the Deputy’s comments are, quite frankly, unfounded. This is a serious situation as regards job preservation and our people are working with us to make the right decisions.