This underfunding of pensions problem is going to hit every private pension fund in the land. Paying for years into a pension will not guarantee you a pension. If the scheme is wound up, only those currently in receipt of pensions are fully protected. Watch this space!

Don’t want to be pedantic but surely any disruption to passengers is because union has called a strike!

What’s that I hear…
Michael O Leary having a friggin belly laugh all the way to the bank.

Hey, I genuinely see where the staff are coming from, but surely the unions must see that they are being out manoeuvred.

Amazing that the Unions think a 2 hour strike will fix a €750m pension fund deficit. Maybe working a bit harder would be slightly more productive.

The Trade Union calling for this strike want to destroy Aer Lingus and put all Aer Lingus workers on the dole. All Government subsidies to Trade Unions should be withdrawn immediately. Get real – live in the real world. The management of Aer Lingus are working hard to make our national airline competitive

DAVID BEGG
Calling David BEGG,
Your flight is departing shortly and you need to get on it or return your ticket and go home.
Where are you Davis BEGG?
These are your Unions Davey boy and you have been on the Board of Aer Lingus long enough to know that they have no responsibility in making up shortfalls in the Defined Contribution Pension Scheme. Your Unions are blackmailing Aer Lingus to hand over cash reserved to purchase new aircraft and keep the business in existence. Your lads Davey are behaving like the Dublin criminal gangs so it’s time for you to be honest. Either agree that the behaviour of the Unions is tantamount to a crime or get off the Board now!

It’s hard to see what lies ahead for Aer Lingus, obviously there are those still there that worked in the striking 70′s and 80′s and they are rightly educating the next generation.

Industrial action, be it threats or actual, has never left the airline. Will it ever?

Employee protection and bargaining is a must in any industry. But Aer Lingus, you seem to carry the British Leyland unrest flag from oh so long ago. Don’t let it be the death of you.

Expecting the unions to understand free enterprise is a fools errand. Expecting the union leadership to understand basic economic realities has always and will always be a complete waste of time. They are as capitalistic as any Russian dictator was, ever! They love their overpaid piece of the financial pie.

Their pensions are more important than the national recovery it’s going to help the airports the hotels the taxi driver etc traffic is down over the winter now go on strike to f. K it up altoghter crazy absolutely crazy

The attitude of the union members is basically that as long as they’re getting theirs then screw the employer’s need to operate a business. And they talk about management only caring about themselves!

I wonder are the Union pension schemes meeting their funding requirements? No doubt they probably are, after all it’s the members who subsidize them.

They choose to stop working and blame management for somehow having control of their bodies…

Who are they kidding like?

There us nothing left in anyones pension no matter where they work! Unless you are Jack O’Connor & David Begg as they will be walking off in the sunset with their big pensions!

Strike free national pay agreements and benchmarking fed the greedy beneficiaries at too high a price. Now that we have been bled dry it is back to bullying to sustain the unsustainable!

They should hang their heads in shame theirs guys with no work no money no pensions no dole,these idiots protected by these unions to destroy Ireland it’s bad effort the banks,etc and now the 4r5000 in aerlingus daa are trying to well done

Can’t help but think Christoph Mueller is ready to face down the unions on this, and Micko is ready with an army of scabs. Make or break time for aer lingus and Mueller.

Surely this raises an even bigger question and one I have been advocating for years.
David Begg is on the board at AL yet the Unions are giving strike notice. Conflict of Interests???? Surely!!!?!
He also sits on the board of Central Bank and did so during the non-existant regulatory years that led us to the gates of doom! Union members? Why is he still your commander in Chief!???