Ryanair's U.K. Pilots Make Move Toward Possible Strike
- Britain’s Balpa union begins countdown to possible action
- July traffic expansion slowest this year amid scrapped flights
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Ryanair Holdings Plc is starting to see the damage from the labor strife that’s disrupted flights across Europe at the height of summer, just as the dispute threatens to extend to Britain, the carrier’s biggest market.
Passenger growth in July fell to its slowest rate since the Dublin-based carrier agreed to recognize unions in December, as walkouts by pilots and flight attendants forced it to cancel hundreds of services. The numbers advanced 4 percent for the month compared with 11 percent the year before.