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Jason Clarke via Aer Lingus

Aer Lingus has announced plans to hire 100 new pilots

Starting salaries will range from €59,000 to €72,000.

AER LINGUS has announced plans to hire over 100 pilots.

Launching its largest ever pilot recruitment drive, over 100 direct entry pilot positions are being made available at the airline’s home base in Dublin airport.

Pilots who are hired to fly Airbus type rated planes will start on a package of around €72,000 (including average variable flight associated pay of around €18,000).

Non-Airbus type rated pilots will have a smaller starting package of €59,000, including the same average variable flight associate pay.

Pilots will also receive a contributory pension scheme of 21%.

Speaking at the announcement, Aer Lingus chief operating officer Mike Rutter said:

“We are looking for highly motivated individuals who are committed to delivering our excellent service and who are tuned into the challenging commercial priorities faced by a value carrier in today’s highly competitive aviation sector.”

Essential criteria include:

  • A valid EASA issued ATPL (or frozen ATPL)
  • A current ME/IR
  • MCC qualification
  • EASA Class 1 Medical certificate
  • Provide 3 verifiable references
  • English Language Proficiency level 5 or higher
  • Permanently eligible to live and work in the EU with an unrestricted worldwide passport
  • Able to pass a strict airport security vetting procedure
  • Possession and demonstration of the key competencies outlined below

This announcement comes a week after Ryanair CEO Michael O’Leary sent a letter to each and every pilot who works for the airline urging them to stay with the company despite the recent cancellation and rostering controversies affecting the firm.

In a circular seen by this publication, O’Leary asks pilots not to leave for rival airlines.

The letter promises that those who stay loyal to Ryanair will receive a pay increase of €10,000 for captains and €5,000 for first officers.

They will also get a “productivity/loyalty bonus” of €12,000 which it says will be payable from November 2017 to October 28.

Ryanair has also promised that if pilots are offered a better deal by Jet2 or Norwegian Air, then Ryanair will exceed the offer they have received.

The airline announced last month that it was cancelling 18,000 flights from its winter schedule which would affect up to 400,000 customers.

The company said the flight cuts would eliminate all risk of further roster-related flight cancellations “because slower growth creates lots of spare aircraft and crews across Ryanair’s 86 bases this winter”.

Click here to find out more about Aer Lingus new pilot positions.

With reporting by Garreth McNamee

Read: Michael O’Leary asks Ryanair’s pilots to resist offers from rivals

More: Cork bound Aer Lingus flight forced into diversion after ‘full emergency’ declared

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    Aug 26th 2013, 10:20 AM

    Mains pipes in Limerick must be in a bad way. I work on the Ballysimon Road in Limerick and the amount of times the mains pipe on this road has burst is nuts.

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    Aug 26th 2013, 10:35 AM

    By the looks of that pipe I bet the Romans had a better water supply.

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    Aug 26th 2013, 10:37 AM

    Well done limerick country council great work getting the water supply back on do quick

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    Aug 26th 2013, 12:21 PM

    Goebong.

    Am I reading your comment correct?

    Are you congragulating Limerick CITY council for actually doing the job they are being paid to do?

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    Aug 26th 2013, 1:51 PM

    Yes they done a great job water back on within hours great job people could have had no water all day

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    Aug 26th 2013, 2:06 PM

    Goebung

    Thanks for confirming that we need to congragulate council workers for actually working.

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    Aug 26th 2013, 2:27 PM

    So what do want to give out to them for doing a good job stop being so negative

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    Aug 26th 2013, 3:40 PM

    Goebung

    Dont worry this time next year when their all transfered to Irish Water they will be too busy fixing water meters to have time to fix leaks, then you’ll be giving out.

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    Aug 26th 2013, 3:48 PM

    It probably was a roman made pipe from roman times

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    Aug 26th 2013, 12:10 PM

    Is that a stock photo of some pipe that leaked or a photo of water pipes typical of Limerick?

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    Aug 26th 2013, 12:23 PM

    Robert

    That is a stock photo. Howeveer it could also be a photo of typical water pipes anywhere in the country. Some water pipes have been repaired so often the councils would have paid 10 times less to actually replace them altogether.

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    Aug 26th 2013, 10:37 AM

    That’s the council “engineers” for you

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    Aug 26th 2013, 1:16 PM

    The pipe wil need to be fixed and stay fixed, as all the wh0res will need their weekly wash after the weekend

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    Aug 26th 2013, 7:51 PM

    I guess the customers don’t wash at all?

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    Aug 26th 2013, 1:52 PM

    Bit of plumbers mate… She’ll be grand….!

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    Aug 26th 2013, 12:36 PM

    Do they use wooden pipes as in pic?

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    Aug 26th 2013, 12:49 PM

    Pipes my side spear to burst a lot as well as the water is often off for repairs.

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