The very first strike has little impact on Ryanair flights

The very first Ryanair strike, this morning between 05:01 and 08:59, did not have much impact on the Ryanair network: none of the six Ryanair flights out of Frankfurt was cancelled. Six flights out of Berlin-Schoenefeld left as scheduled; the flight to Bergamo, however, has been delayed five hours. Passengers on the flight between Cologne-Bonn airport and Copenhagen have been advised on a delay of ten hours.

Vereinigung Cockpit, the German pilots union, cancelled yesterday’s negotiation talks and called upon to strike because Ryanair did not want to discuss with two of the five union delegates. New negotiations have been planned in early January.

The German strike is the first one since the Irish low-cost airline was founded back in 1985.

Update: 11:15 (UTC+1) Ryanair tweeted that 9 out 36 flights were delayed but no cancellations. The airline expects to operate all of their German scheduled flights today.