EasyJet has come to an agreement with its pilots to ensure none of them will be made compulsorily redundant.
Pilots’ union BALPA has reached agreement on behalf of its members, which will see 60 pilots leaving voluntarily and 1,500 working part time.
All the pilots based at Southend, Stansted, and Newcastle which have been closed will be offered jobs elsewhere on the UK network.
Brian Strutton, BALPA General Secretary praised easyJet’s ‘positive approach’ during negotiations: “This is a remarkable achievement which has only been possible because of three groups of people: the BALPA reps, easyJet management who have worked with us constructively during this process, but most of all the easyJet pilots themselves who have volunteered in record numbers for part time work and voluntary redundancy to help save their colleagues’ jobs.”
