Aer Lingus is permanently closing its cabin crew base at Shannon airport.
The airline is also temporarily closing its Cork base from September until late November.
It's 81 cabin crew at Shannon will be offered enhanced redundancy terms or a transfer to Dublin with 45 ground staff to remain laid off.
The 198 staff in Cork will be laid off for 3 months.
Failure to put survival and recovery plan in place costing aviation jobs – @orourke_darren
"The Minister for Transport has taken an unacceptable hands-off approach to aviation and the Government’s lack of action is now costing even more jobs."https://t.co/doLnQ4JKqn #AerLingus pic.twitter.com/Mw4WTEWbzJ— Sinn Féin (@sinnfeinireland) May 18, 2021
Aer Lingus says there will be a requirement for redundancies and structural change after it lost €103 million in the first 3 months of this year,
With and additional €361 million last year.
