Ryanair has hit out at claims by unions that strike action in Europe later this month will cause ‘travel chaos’.
Industrial action in several European countries planned for September 28 has been described by unions as the ‘biggest strike ever’ to hit the airline.
But Ryanair says experience during previous strikes, for example in Ireland earlier this summer and in Germany yesterday, showed the strikes do not cause ‘widespread disruption’.
Ryanair said if there are further cabin crew strikes on September 28, it expects the ‘vast majority’ of its cabin crew across Europe will work as normal.
It also expects a significant majority of its cabin crew in Spain, Italy, Belgium, the Netherlands and Portugal will also work normally ‘as they have during previous strikes’.
Ryanair’s Kenny Jacobs said: "Repeated false claims made by these unions about ‘travel chaos’ have proven to be unfounded. While we regret the limited strike actions that have taken place this summer, in all cases we have judiciously pre-cancelled a small number of our 2,500 daily flights in order to minimise customer disruption and inconvenience.
"We object to these lurid and inaccurate press headlines which wrongly to refer to ‘travel chaos’, despite the fact that during the seven days of partial strikes by a small minority of our pilots and cabin crew this summer, there has been very little disruption and absolutely no ‘chaos’."
