Ryanair announced this Friday to its staff in an email that it will close its bases at the airports of Gran Canaria, Tenerife South, Lanzarote and Gerona on January 8, 2020, and that it will initiate a collective dismissal of the 512 employees it maintains in those facilities, the USO union reported in a statement.
To date, the unions, USO and Sictpla, which represent Ryanair's passenger cabin crew (TCP), had planned a strike for the days 1, 2, 6, 8, 13, 15, 20, 22, 27 and 29 of September to try to avoid the closure of these bases.
The confirmation of the intentions of the Irish low-cost airline has occurred while the unions and management were negotiating the minimum services for these ten days of strike, reported the secretary of organization of USO Ryanair, Jairo Gonzalo.
The union has estimated at 512 the possible layoffs that would be carried out if the closure of the Ryanair facilities were to take place, since between cabin crew and pilots there are 164 employees in Girona, 156 in Tenerife South, 110 in Gran Canaria and 82 in Lanzarote.
In the email sent to Ryanair employees, the company justifies these closures by the delays in the delivery of Max aircraft, the effects of a possible "hard Brexit" and the 41% drop in profits in the first quarter of the year compared to two years ago.
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