{"id":364231,"date":"2020-07-23T11:01:24","date_gmt":"2020-07-23T05:31:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=364231"},"modified":"2020-07-23T11:01:24","modified_gmt":"2020-07-23T05:31:24","slug":"ryanair-to-shut-frankfurt-hub-after-pilots-refuse-pay-cuts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/ryanair-to-shut-frankfurt-hub-after-pilots-refuse-pay-cuts\/","title":{"rendered":"Ryanair to shut Frankfurt hub after pilots refuse pay cuts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Irish no-frills airline Ryanair plans to close its Frankfurt-Hahn base in Germany &#8212; and other hubs could follow after German pilots rejected pay cuts, it emerged on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Ryanair, which is seeking to axe 3,000 jobs due to a coronavirus-induced collapse in travel demand, revealed its plan in a memo sent Tuesday to Germany-based pilots.<\/p>\n<p>The Dublin-based carrier blamed their trade union VC, whose members voted in favour of rejecting its proposed 20-percent pay cut over four years.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;VC wrote to us&#8230; (on Monday) confirming that, following a ballot of members, this emergency agreement on cost savings and job protection was rejected since only 49.4 percent voted in favour,&#8221; Ryanair said in the memo obtained by AFP on Wednesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Irish no-frills airline Ryanair plans to close its Frankfurt-Hahn base in Germany &#8212; and other hubs could follow after German pilots rejected pay cuts, it emerged on Wednesday. Ryanair, which is seeking to axe 3,000 jobs due to a coronavirus-induced collapse in travel demand, revealed its plan in a memo sent Tuesday to Germany-based pilots. The Dublin-based carrier blamed their trade union VC, whose members voted in favour of rejecting its proposed 20-percent pay cut over four years. &#8220;VC wrote to us&#8230; (on Monday) confirming that, following a ballot of members, this emergency agreement on cost savings and job protection [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[188,139,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-364231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-live-mint","category-live-mint","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=364231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364231\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=364231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=364231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=364231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}