Irish Travel Agents’ Association (ITAA) CEO Clare Dunne has made a plea on behalf of passengers to pilots union IALPA and Aer Lingus management to resolve their ongoing dispute.
Clare Dunne said “the new list of cancellations is really bad news for all of the families sitting around the country waiting to go on their holidays. Next Saturday is a really, really busy day. It is the first day after the school holidays start, after the primary schools finish up, and all of those families are waiting to go away next Saturday. They were able to concentrate on the routes that they had multiple flights or on business routes and try to salvage the holiday routes that have now been cancelled for Saturday because it is an all-out strike from 5am until 1pm. We have seen the flight prices go up. If you do voluntarily cancel your flight, then you will forego your compensation because you have opted to cancel it. There is a solution out there, they just need to sit down and find it.”
