Berlin - The Irish Low Cost Carrier Ryanair has announced the axing of its base at Bremen (BRE) and a partial withdrawal from Weeze (NRN) on Monday. The move of Europe's biggest budget airline comes after a series of strikes by pilots and cabin crews that hampered Ryanair operations throughout the summer, as the German daily Frankfurter Allgemeine (FAZ) reported Tuesday.
Bremen will be closed in November. With up to five jets and its own terminal in a former hangar building, BRE previously had been Ryanair's most important base in Northern Germany. The management of the Dublin-based company disclosed its plans to slim down its fleet at Weeze on Monday. In a letter to employees the airline said it intended to relocate at least two of five Boeing 737-800 airliners from the former airbase at the Dutch-German border that serves both the greater Dusseldorf area as well as the western Netherlands.
A pessspokesperson for Ryanair did not want to comment on the decision. Speaking to AviationUpdate on Tuesday on the phone the official did not even confirm the plans to relocate the aircraft. Meanwhile the trade union ver.di argues that the step would be an illegal consequence of industrial action taken by Ryanair employees at both bases earlier this year. Several times the cabin workers and flight deck crews went on strike this summer. They were citing poor payment, harsh work conditions and tightly written working contracts under Irish labour law as reasons for the stand-out.
German unions earlier have been trying to organise among Ryanair employees for years. Ver.di, Germany's service worker union, sees the axing of the bases a an illegal act of retaliation against strikes, a spokesman told AFP news agency. Ryanair on the other hand calls the industrial actions itself illegal.
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| Ryanair leaves Bremen und partly Weeze. Pic: Ryanair PAO. |
Bremen will be closed in November. With up to five jets and its own terminal in a former hangar building, BRE previously had been Ryanair's most important base in Northern Germany. The management of the Dublin-based company disclosed its plans to slim down its fleet at Weeze on Monday. In a letter to employees the airline said it intended to relocate at least two of five Boeing 737-800 airliners from the former airbase at the Dutch-German border that serves both the greater Dusseldorf area as well as the western Netherlands.
A pessspokesperson for Ryanair did not want to comment on the decision. Speaking to AviationUpdate on Tuesday on the phone the official did not even confirm the plans to relocate the aircraft. Meanwhile the trade union ver.di argues that the step would be an illegal consequence of industrial action taken by Ryanair employees at both bases earlier this year. Several times the cabin workers and flight deck crews went on strike this summer. They were citing poor payment, harsh work conditions and tightly written working contracts under Irish labour law as reasons for the stand-out.
German unions earlier have been trying to organise among Ryanair employees for years. Ver.di, Germany's service worker union, sees the axing of the bases a an illegal act of retaliation against strikes, a spokesman told AFP news agency. Ryanair on the other hand calls the industrial actions itself illegal.
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