Ryanair and Its Plan

Ryanair is an Irish airline that was founded in 1984, headquartered in Dublin. It forms the greatest part of the Ryanair Holdings family of the airlines. This Irish budget airline is now planning to cut about 3000 jobs and decrease staff pay by a fifth because of the COVID-19 crisis that has stopped all the international flights.

The airline said that it was cutting approximately 15% of the 20,000 efficient laborers as it didn’t hope that the passenger numbers or the pricing to go back to the normal levels until 2022 summer. As part of a program of eliminating cost cuts, Ryanair said that it could shut down a number of bases throughout Europe until the air travel restores.

Michael O’Leary, the chief executive, took a 50% cut in the payment for May and April, and now he has extended this payment cutoff until the end of the March of the following year.

Predicted Future

O’Leary said that the package of measures that include the unpaid leave for the staff illustrated the least to withstand the following 12 months. He told the BBC that if a vaccine wasn’t found, then they would have to declare more cuts and deeper elimination in the future.

The company was expecting a total loss of over €100 million for the first quarter and said that the restructuring and job losses would begin in July. The job cut off will affect the cabin crew and pilots mostly, though the measures will hit the head office and the back office teams as well.

The company highlighted that it was expecting the restoration of the passenger demand, and pricing would take a minimum of 2 years. They would notify the trade unions shortly about its job loss program and restructuring. It expects to contain less than 100 million passengers for the entire year to the end of 2021 March.