The Dublin High Court blocked Wednesday a Ryanair pilots strike scheduled for Thursday and Friday in Ireland, giving reason to the airline that is facing social movements elsewhere in Europe.
Salaries deemed insufficient
Judge Denis McDonald said the social movement should be "blocked", cutting in favor of Ryanair who initiated this action in court. The low-cost company argued during the hearing that a strike could not be conducted until a mediation process had come to an end, while considering that Forsa's vote in favor of the strike had been precipitated and without a very precise request.
The Irish trade union was planning this stoppage of pilots to protest against their wage conditions, which were considered insufficient.
Ryanair denounces "a minority of pilots"
Ryanair immediately congratulated in a statement of this decision which prevents according to the company "a minority of Irish pilots to strike". The low-cost carrier adds that all flights departing from Irish airports will proceed normally. The company also asks the Irish pilots, "very well paid" according to her, to return to the negotiating table as part of the mediation process.
Ryanair, however, is not out of business since it is under threat of another series of strikes of pilots members of the union Balpa in the UK, from Thursday and Friday and early September, she also contested in justice.