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Ryanair’s chief executive said Tuesday, in a telephone interview with Lusa, that the airline is “evaluating the operation in Portugal”, that is, in terms of costs, and said it intends to maintain as many jobs as possible.
“We have to cut our labor costs in the short term, but not in an unreasonable way. We have to cut back from time to time to reinstate pay, to try and keep jobs as long as possible,” Eddie Wilson said.
The president of Ryanair intends to reach an agreement in this regard with the Portuguese workers, he said.
“We have a very vocal union, which has failed to reach an agreement with Ryanair and which seems to devote all its time to the media rather than to the company and I think it is a shame, especially considering that we were able to reach to agreements in most of the others. ” European countries ”, he assured.
He also indicated that the group is “now making an assessment on the costs of personnel and airports and what the quarantine situation is in Portugal, to decide what the traffic figures will be.” [que pretende atingir]”.
Eddie Wilson also defended that the company is “a great contributor to the Portuguese economy”, operates “all year round” and supports tourism and employment.
On August 21, Ryanair’s Director of Human Resources said, in an interview with Lusa, that there is “a real prospect of wild outages in Portugal” in the winter season in terms of capacity and aircraft, due to the covid pandemic. -19. .
“We are facing very uncertain times, and there is a very real prospect of wild outages in Portugal this winter at all of our bases, in terms of capacity and in terms of aircraft,” said Ryanair Director of Human Resources Darrell Hughes. in a telephone interview with Lusa.
Asked for details and giving figures, the head of the Irish low-cost carrier said that “there is the possibility of wild cuts anywhere” of the company’s operation in Europe, referring to the already made announcement that the company would cut 20%. of your planned time for September and October.
Darrell Hughes recalled that the company has an agreement with the pilots “to keep the people employed, which at least gives them some protection”, but stated that “it is not in recruitment mode”, but “in survival and reconstruction mode. “”.
The Ryanair director also said that, as the company had already told Lusa, it does not plan to “use Crewlink staff in winter”, referring to the temporary work company that has been operating in Portugal for more than 10 years and that it has as only Ryanair.
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