the Irish airline Ryanair signed with him Cipla Pilots Union Her first collective agreement for pilots in Spain, which includes an annual salary increase of between 2.8% and 3% from 2024 and changes to the pay structure. Specifically, of the four years that the agreement lasts, through March 2027, three of them will include these annual increases. Salaries will remain frozen this year. In addition, the agreement, which benefits a total of 900 pilots based in Spain, includes a new pay structure for the group based on experience, both for captains and co-pilots or depending on the base.
The airline revealed that there will also be a training allowance for the next four years, with scheduled days off and when working off base, as well as a rotation where pilots will work five days and four free.
The agreement was signed at the headquarters of the Pilots’ Union in Madrid and It was attended by the company’s CEO, Eddie Wilsonwho was accompanied by Director of Human Resources Darrell Hughes and Director of Operations Neil McMahon. On behalf of President Cipla, Oscar Sanguino, and Chief Delegate for the Ryanair Union Division, Fran Gomez. “This agreement reinforces Ryanair’s commitment to the economy in Spain and to its pilots based in Spain, and to invest in growth opportunities for the sector for the coming years,” Wilson stressed in his speech. “This 4-year agreement will mean better salaries and conditions for Spanish pilots, including an annual salary increase,” he noted. Sanguino highlighted the signing as a “historic agreement” and highlighted that “this agreement will give pilots security, certainty and confidence in their current and future relationships with Ryanair.” “We do not celebrate the end of the operation, we are at the beginning of an understanding between the union and the airline,” he added.
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The deal is a Ryanair oxygen cylinder, which in the past year as a company has been subjected to several strike calls by the flight crew. The wound is still open. It has come to terms with CCOO, but the USO and Sitcpla unions are keeping their finger on the pulse with management. Wilson often claims that Ryanair has reached agreements with unions in the past four years in Ireland, the UK, Germany, France, Italy, Portugal and also in Spain. With pilots, as well as with CCOO. “What is not possible is negotiation with the interlocutors who do not want to reach an agreement and what they want is to strike,” he explained last year to EL PERIÓDICO.
Ryanair maintains that it is the airline in Europe that has recovered the best since the end of covid19 restrictions. during a pandemic, Ryanair and Cipla They struck cost-saving and pay-cut deals that kept all Spanish-based pilots employed, and Ryanair kept licenses and training up-to-date to be the airline best equipped to lead Spain’s tourism and connectivity rebound. Ryanair is Spain’s largest airline and carries more than 50 million passengers to/from Spain each year, generating €14.6 billion in the Spanish economy and over 300,000 jobs across Spain. At the European level, it operates 12 bases and 725 routes connecting Spain to the main European destinations for business and tourism traffic.
Sepla is an independent organization, founded in 1965, with the sole representation of all pilots resident in Spain from all airlines, with 16 company boards. Its main objective is to protect and defend the working, professional and social environment, the welfare of the group of pilots, as well as the safety of flight.
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