Cabin Crew, Civil Aviation, Low cost carriers, Pilots

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Zero-hour contracts and no food or water: inside the savage machine of low-cost flights (playground.plus)

By Anna Freeman, Martí Renau and Anna Pacheco This summer, the rabid consumerism with which we buy and travel on low-cost airlines came to a head. Ryanair experienced the biggest pilot strikes in its history. Up to 67,000 passengers were affected by the cancellation of almost 400 flights. 15 days before, 600 flights were affected […]


September 3, 2018

Cabin Crew

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Finnair hiring more foreign cabin crews (yle.fi/uutiset)

Finnair is lowering operating costs by laying off Finnish employees and contracting more staff from abroad. The company says that employing American cabin crew members on its New York route as of March will create sizable savings. Already one-fifth of Finnair’s cabin personnel have been contracted from abroad. Over the past five years, Finnair has […]


February 10, 2014