DUBLIN, Aug 21 (Reuters) - Ryanair plans to cut
significantly fewer jobs than the 3,000 it originally estimated,
after 97% of pilots and over 90% of cabin crew signed up so far
to pay cuts and work practice changes, its director Of
operations said on Friday.
Europe's biggest budget airline warned it would have to cut
one in five of its pilots and cabin crew if they did not agree
to pay cuts of up to 20% after the COVID-19 crisis grounded 99%
of its planes from April to June and continued to hit business
thereafter.
"We haven't finalised the number yet, we originally said
there was going to be 3,000 redundancies but we have been able
to reduce that significantly," Neal McMahon told Reuters in a
telephone interview.
(Reporting by Padraic Halpin; Editing by Susan Fenton)