Polish police said Monday they were investigating a fake bomb threat that forced a Ryanair passenger plane travelling from Dublin to Krakow to make an emergency landing in Berlin.
A German union on Tuesday said its pilots had agreed the outlines of a deal with Ryanair for better pay and
conditions, calling off further industrial action for now.
German cabin crew have approved a proposed labour agreement hashed out with Irish low-cost carrier Ryanair, the Verdi union said, ending months of deadlock and strike threats over better pay and conditions.
Ryanair has forged a preliminary labour agreement with German cabin crews, the low cost airline said on Thursday, after
strikes over employment contracts caused widespread disruption earlier this year.
German cabin crew said they would join pilots in Europe-wide strikes against Ryanair on Friday. The airline had cancelled 133 connections to and from Germany by Friday morning.
German pilots and cabin crew for budget Irish carrier Ryanair walked off the job on Wednesday, disrupting travel for thousands of passengers in the latest flare-up of a bitter Europe-wide battle for better pay and conditions.
Ryanair warned on Tuesday that it may slash jobs and close some bases in Germany if it is hit with more strikes, a day before a planned work stoppage for better pay and conditions.
Unions representing pilots and cabin crew of Irish no-frills airline Ryanair In Germany have called for a strike on Wednesday over better pay and working conditions.
Strike-hit Ryanair has announced it will refund passengers whose flights are cancelled - as it is obliged to do - but will not pay out compensation, citing "extraordinary circumstances".
Ryanair said it will cancel 250 flights to and from Germany on Friday after German pilots announced they were
joining Europe-wide strikes against the carrier, in a spiralling row over pay and conditions.
Passengers were left stranded this week as flights in and out of Germany were cancelled due to Europe-wide cabin crew strikes at budget airline Ryanair. Airports across the country reported flight cancellations, with Cologne/Bonn the worst affected.
A Ryanair flight made an emergency landing at Frankfurt after a sudden loss of cabin pressure which sent 30 passengers to hospital, police and the Irish airline said on Saturday.
The German pilot union Vereinigung Cockpit (VC) has broken off the collective bargaining negotiations with Ryanair, increasing the likelihood of strikes on the budget airline’s German routes.
Nearly 1,500 flights in Germany had a delay of three hours or more in the first half of the year, almost twice as many as in the same period last year.
German airline giant Lufthansa said Wednesday it had carried 130 million passengers in 2017, nosing ahead of budget Irish carrier Ryanair to become Europe's largest airline by passenger numbers.
Passengers travelling with Ryanair
in Germany on Friday saw little disruption from a short strike called by a pilots' union, with the no-frills airline praising crew for "largely ignoring" the unprecedented walkout.
German Ryanair pilots will strike for the first time Friday, union leaders said, dialling up the heat in a Europe-wide battle for recognition from the no-frills airline ahead of the busy holiday period.
The pilots’ union Vereinigung Cockpit (VC) announced on Tuesday that pilots on Ryanair would take part in the first industrial action in the budget airline’s history.
Ryanair chief executive Michael O' Leary on Wednesday said his airline would not make a bid for insolvent Air Berlin, slamming what he called a German "stitch-up" designed to benefit Lufthansa.
Irish low-cost airline Ryanair on Tuesday said it will expand routes from Germany's Frankfurt airport in future, but warned of challenges ahead for the airline industry from Brexit.
Irish low-cost airline Ryanair on Wednesday said it would base two aircraft at Frankfurt airport, Germany's busiest, sparking outrage among German competitors.
State prosecutors in Koblenz raided Ryanair crew rooms in six airports across Germany, accusing the discount airline of tax evasion and unfair labour practises, it was reported on Wednesday.
