Ryanair Tells Pilots It’s Making Progress Easing Pilot Shortage
- Carrier has hired more than 200 pilots this month: document
- Pilots from collapsed airline Monarch joining in November
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Ryanair Holdings Plc’s effort to ease the shortage of pilots that contributed to months of flight cancellations may be bearing fruit, and could give the carrier leverage in a pay dispute with some existing employees.
Europe’s biggest discount airline hired more than 200 pilots this month, according to a copy of a briefing document the carrier sent to employees on Friday, which was seen by Bloomberg. A group of pilots from the collapsed British carrier Monarch Airlines Ltd. will join in November and the company is seeing “a flood” of applications from pilots at Air Berlin Plc -- an airline in liquidation -- as well as the troubled Alitalia SpA and others, according to the document.