This Irish airline Signed with Ryanair Sepla pilots association signed the first collective agreement for pilots in spainIt includes annual salary increase of 2.8% to 3% from 2024 and changes in pay structure. Specifically, three of the four years the deal runs through March 2027 will include these annual increases. Salaries will be frozen this year. In addition, the deal, benefiting a total of 900 pilots based in Spain, includes a new experience-based pay structure for both captains and co-pilots and, depending on the base, the collective.
The airline has announced that for the next four years there will be days off and a specified training allowance while working off-base, as well as a rotation where pilots will work five days and work four unpaid days.
The signing of the deal took place at the pilots’ union headquarters in Madrid and was attended by the company’s CEO, Eddie Wilson, accompanied by Human Resources Director Darrel Hughes and COO Neal McMahon. On behalf of President Sepla, oscar sanguinoand Fran Gómez, head of Ryanair’s Union Division. “This agreement strengthens Ryanair’s commitment to the Spanish economy and its Spain-based pilots and invests in growth opportunities for the industry in the years ahead,” Wilson said in his speech. “This 4-year deal will mean better wages and conditions for Spanish pilots, including annual salary increases,” he said. Sanguino underlined that this signing is a “historic agreement” and stressed that “this agreement will give pilots security, certainty and confidence in their current and future relations with Ryanair”. “We are not celebrating the end of the process, we are at the beginning of an agreement between the union and the airline,” he said.
deal one oxygen cylinder for Ryanair, as a company, endured numerous strike calls by cabin crew last year. The wound is still open. It has reached an agreement with the CCOO, but the unions USO and Sitcpla are keeping their finger on the pulse of management. Wilson often claims that over the past four years Ryanair has made deals with unions in Ireland, the UK, Germany, France, Italy, Portugal and also Spain. With the pilots and also with the CCOO. “It is not possible to negotiate with interlocutors who do not want to reach an agreement and go on strike they want,” he told EL PERIÓDICO of the Prensa Ibérica group last year.
Ryanair assures it is the best rebound airline in Europe since the end of covid19 restrictions. During the pandemic, Ryanair and Sepla They have made cost savings agreements and salary cuts that employ all of their Spanish-based pilots, Ryanair has kept licenses and training up-to-date to become the airline best prepared to lead the recovery of Spanish tourism and connectivity. Ryanair is Spain’s largest airline, transporting more than 50 million passengers to/from Spain each year, providing the Spanish economy with €14.6 billion and more than 300,000 jobs across Spain. At the European level, it manages 12 bases and 725 routes connecting Spain to key European destinations for business and tourism traffic.
Sepla is an independent institution founded in 1965, with 16 company councils and the sole representative of all Spanish-based pilots of all airlines. Its main purpose is to protect and defend the business, professional and social environment, well-being of the pilots group, as well as flight safety.