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“A few weeks ago we announced that we would have to cut around 3,000 jobs by 15 to 16 thousand employees and some of them will probably be in Portugal, depending on the number of planes we have there [a operar]”In an interview with the Lusa agency, Ryanair CEO Eddie Wilson.
The day the low-cost airline announces the resumption of operations next July, after more than three months with the planes stopped due to restrictions implemented by European countries to contain the covid-19 outbreak, the official highlights that Ryanair is now “re-evaluating its operations and talking to unions” in Portugal.
Still, according to the official, it is already certain that “what will determine this number [de despedimentos] will be the total number of aircraft based in Portugal. “
“For every plane that is retired, around 10 pilot jobs and approximately 20 cabin crew jobs are cut,” he exemplifies.
When asked which Portuguese bases will be most affected, Eddie Wilson indicates that the Dublin, Ireland-based airline is “looking at everything.”
“We have a substantial operation in Porto, a relatively small operation in Ponta Delgada, we have resized the operation in Faro and we operate in Lisbon,” he says, without elaborating.
Ryanair advanced on April 1 with a simplified dismissal in Portugal, considering the use of the measure as essential for the preservation of jobs in the country, according to the information transmitted at that time to the unions.
And with the exception that Ryanair is not yet “at the end of this exercise [de reavaliação]”On his presence in Portugal, as well as in other European countries, Eddie Wilson now justifies that this type of measures is based on the covid-19 pandemic, since” the industry is in crisis “.
“We carried 150,000 passengers in April, when we should have carried 30 million,” said the official, stressing the need for Ryanair “to adjust its activity to the new reality.”
“And that is what we will do when we fly again,” he says.
And this will happen from July 1, as announced by the airline today, indicating that the resumption is subject to the lifting of travel restrictions applied to flights within the community.
“What will happen here is that we will have a lower demand and that is why we only resume with 40% of our capacity, which means that we have fewer planes and fewer frequencies […] and in these situations we have to consider redundancies and cost cuts, “Eddie Wilson tells Lusa.
Since the commencement of the travel limits, applied in mid-March, Ryanair has only made about 30 daily flights between Ireland, the UK and Europe, and is now expecting to move to around 1,000 daily connections, operating on fewer frequencies than usual.
Previously responsible for Ryanair’s personnel department, Eddie Wilson has been CEO of the low-cost airline since September 2019, replacing Michael O’Leary, who led the entire group.
Based in Ireland, airline Ryanair belongs to the aeronautical group of the same name, which also includes companies such as Buzz, Lauda and Malta Air, which normally carry around 150 million passengers per year, for a total of more than 2,400 daily flights operated. from 82 bases in Europe and North Africa.
Connects over 200 destinations in 40 countries.
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