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Friday 27 November 2020
Human rights activists describe such examinations conducted under duress as equivalent to sexual assault.
Ryanair said in a statement that the claims made by ENAC are “factually incorrect”.
Pilots at the airline have accepted a 20% pay cut to “minimise job losses”.
The company said that the number of passengers it carried in March was 48% lower than the same month last year.
The struggling airline has been hit by a slump in bookings since the outbreak of the coronavirus.
The flight left Barajas airport in Madrid earlier today.
The airline said it was a technical issue.
Their trade union served notice last week of plans for 48 hours of strike action from midnight on 22 August.
The carrier is one of many airlines affected by the global grounding of the Boeing 737 MAX fleet.
Stephen Kavanagh met with staff and union representatives yesterday evening.
SIPTU is to contact Aer Lingus over roll-out of CCTV in staff areas due to missing stock.
Non-priority passengers will have to bring 10kg cabin bags on board.
The watchdog described hand luggage as an “essential” item for travellers.
Other passengers are now being allowed to disembark and are having their temperatures taken.
Ryanair has had a troubled relationship with unions in the past, and only recently recognised unions.
The Sichuan Airlines plane carrying 128 people was diverted and made an emergency landing.
Michael O’Leary said the company will remain “cautious” throughout the rest of its financial year.
In a survey of different airlines, groups travelling with Ryanair were more likely to be seated separately if they hadn’t paid for their seats.
Flight MH122 was heading from Sydney to Kuala Lumpur when one of its engines shut down.
The dispute centres around employe conditions, with pilots asking that they be allowed to negotiate using unions, and Ryanair refusing to recognise unions.
The Anpac union has called a strike of Ryanair pilots at bases across Italy on 15 December for four hours, from 1pm to 5pm.
The airline’s general manager said crew described seeing the missile “blow up and fall apart”.
The journalist has recently been reporting on pay talks Ryanair has been having with pilots.
The flight, which was heading to Inverness, officially declared an emergency at 12.36pm.
The memo to staff comes following a tumultuous month at the airline.
Dublin-based Captain Imelda Comer hand delivered the letter to Ryanair management yesterday.
The failure has been described as “the biggest ever UK airline failure”.
Up to 50 flights a day will be cancelled over the next six weeks.
Ryanair plans to cancel 40-50 flights daily for the next six weeks.
The decision may have a big impact on future labour disputes at the airline.
Ryanair has increased check-in bag sizes from 15kg to 20kg.
The flight the passenger was due to fly on was delayed for hours.
Iberia was fined €25,000 over the practice.
Frequent flyer programme Aerclub has faced heavy criticism since it was launched last year.
Passengers are being charged extra to sit together, but the airline has denied changing its policy.
The new service will operate on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays.
Flybe will run flights from Dublin to London Southend from 29 October.
Passengers have reported being split up even though the flight they were travelling in was not full.
David Dao, aged 69 was dragged off the United Airlines flight on Sunday after it was was overbooked.
THE GREYHOUND RACING industry has been put in the spotlight again this week, the Social Democrats put forward a motion proposing to end State funding of the sector.
Writing for TheJournal.ie this week, TD Holly Cairns explained that greyhound racing in Ireland will receive €19.2m in public funding next year – an increase of €2.4m on 2020.
Last year, an RTÉ investigation claimed that almost 6,000 greyhounds were killed for not racing fast enough in 2017.
But advocates for the sector have claimed it supports thousands of jobs and that annual Government funding represents an economic investment.
So, today we’re asking: Should the Government stop funding greyhound racing?
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