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Transport EditorTHE Bank Holiday plans of up
to 250,000 Ryanair passengers
were in the balance last night
amid a furious row over the
pay of its pilots.
The budget airline is locked in a
bitter dispute with a union over
the pay and perks of pilots who
are threatening to strike tomor-
row and Friday.
Its lawyers are making a last-ditch
High Court legal challenge today to
block the industrial action.
Experts warn if the protests go
ahead they could disrupt the
holiday plans of passengers booked
on up to 1,714 Ryanair flights due to
depart from UK airports including
Stansted, Birmingham, Manchester
and Liverpool.
Members of pilots union Balpa want
better conditions, including new
‘standby allowances’ for when they
are on call or standby.
But a leaked internal memo
says pilots already enjoy generousThis could affect many more
families flying home before
the end of the school holidays,
raising the prospect of passen-
gers stranded abroad.
Ryanair spokesman Eddie
Wilson said: ‘Balpa should not
be disrupting customers and
their families with excessive
and unexplained demands forpay increases.’ The details of
the packages enjoyed by Rya-
nair pilots are fiercely disputed
by Balpa. It said they had
been ‘exaggerated’.
Officials say the average
basic for captains is between
£70,00 and £75,000 and the
average first officer’s basic is
between £30,000 and £35,000.Clarifications & corrections
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directly at ipso.co.ukRyanair pilots
threaten bank
holiday flights
for 250,
ball fixtures.
Network Rail said: ‘We are
very aware that bank holiday
engineering work affects many
people who will have wanted
to make the most of the long
weekend. We do the work then
is because it affects far fewer
people than a closure on a nor-
mal working day.’RAIL passengers planning a bank
holiday getaway this weekend are
being urged to avoid the East Coast
Main Line.
Train operator London North Eastern
Railway (LNER) issued a ‘do not travel’
warning for the route between London
and Scotland via York on Saturday and
Sunday. King’s Cross will be closed due to
Network Rail engineering work, meaningthere are no trains between London and
Peterborough. LNER will run a severely
restricted service from Scotland and the
north of England to Peterborough, but
trains will be extremely busy and passen-
gers are advised to reserve a seat or risk
having to stand for the journey.
All Grand Central services are cancelledand Hull Trains services will be diverted
to run to and from London St Pancras.
Other events and sporting fixtures
which will be affected by the rail disrup-
tion include Edinburgh Fringe Festival,
York racecourse’s Ebor Festival, Cream-
fields near Warrington, Manchester Pride,
the Ashes cricket Test in Leeds, rugby
league’s Challenge Cup final at Wembley,
Leeds Festival and a full weekend of foot-Daily Mail ReporterRail line warns of weekend mayhem
basic packages worth six fig-
ure when topped up by allow-
ances and bonuses.
The memo details how
UK-based captains already
receive annual pay packages
worth up to £170,000 a year.
Ryanair says the union is
demanding rises worth
between 62 per cent and 121
per cent over two years.
The document focuses on
the packages of five UK-based
captains at the forefront of
the dispute who are all mem-
bers of Balpa’s Ryanair Com-
pany Council.
This council was set up last
year to represent Ryanair
pilots, after the budget airline
finally agreed to recognise
trade unions.
One pilot on a package of
£158,042 a year is said to be
demanding a rise which would
push up their total package to£349,922 in 2021. The strike
has been backed by around
350 of the airline’s 1,250 UK-
based pilots.
But Ryanair hopes there will
not be ‘significant disruption’
because it has pilots on
standby. Another walkout is
due to take place between Sep-
tember 2 and September 4.They want a pay rise ... of £191,000!
Example of captain’s pay and Balpa’s
demands, according to leaked memo:Current package: £158,042. This
includes: £77,929 basic, £12,000 bonus,
£33,21 flying allowance, £18,000 sum for
training pilots and £8,000 pension.÷
Demands for 2021: Total package of
£349,922. This includes: £166,311 basic,
no productivity bonus, £27,530 flying
allowance, £34,198 training payment,
£24,947 pension.
Total rise: £191,880, or 121 per cent.÷
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