Irish budget airline Ryanair will cancel 190 flights out of 2,400 scheduled for September 28, or approximately 81,000, Interfax reports.
According to the airline's Twitter account, 30,000 of the 450,000 passengers who had planned to fly will be affected. for this day.
The flight cancellations are due to further flight attendant strikes in Belgium, Germany, Spain, Italy, the Netherlands and Portugal.
Ryanair has described the upcoming strike as "unnecessary." The airline stated that an agreement has already been reached with flight attendants in Ireland, the UK, Germany, and Portugal and has invited employees in other countries to continue negotiations on corresponding contracts, Deutsche Welle reports.
Strikes by pilots and flight attendants at Europe's most profitable airline have been ongoing for over a year. Ryanair employees are demanding higher wages and better working conditions.
Last week, Ryanair pilots in Germany reached an agreement that they will be permanently employed in the future and will no longer have to pay for their own training, German public media outlet ARD reported.
Ryanair flies to over 1,800 routes from 215 airports in 37 countries. Last fiscal year, the company carried 130.3 million passengers. Its fleet consists of 400 Boeing 737-800 aircraft.
Source: trn-news.ru