Aer Lingus seeking 102 Shannon redundancies

Following yesterday's announcement on the cost improvement plan to secure the airline's future, Aer Lingus held briefing meetings with staff at both Cork and Shannon today. At the Shannon meeting attended by the airline's chief executive Christoph Mueller and corporate affairs director Enda Corneille staff were told that the company is seeking 102 redundancies out of 130 cabin crew based at the mid west airport. Staff were also told at the meeting  that the company's long haul product is where the problem lies. Speaking to RTE news after the meeting Enda Corneille said that if the cost improvement program didn't deliver there was a very real threat to the company's long haul services from both Shannon and Dublin.
In further fallout from yesterday's announcement, Ryanair chief executive called on the government to explain why it had refused Ryanair's last offer which would have doubled the size of the Aer Lingus fleet and added 1,000 jobs.