Aviation

Emerald pilots suspend planned strike as tensions rise over union recognition

Move comes amid ongoing dispute over what union says is Emerald’s failure to engage on collective labour agreement

Keith Butler, chief executive, Emerald, said the strike action was based on an ‘outdated ballot’

Pilots at Emerald Airlines rowed back on a planned bank holiday strike after the company said it would not engage in talks to resolve an ongoing dispute unless they withdrew their threat of industrial action.

The Irish Air Line Pilots’ Association (Ialpa), which is part of the Fórsa trade union, yesterday agreed to pause its strike pending talks with the airline tomorrow.

The pilots’ decision to suspend the strike came after Keith Butler, the Emerald ...