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SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
FORM 6-K
Report of Foreign Private Issuer
Pursuant to Rule 13a-16 or 15d-16
of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934
For the
month of December 2017
RYANAIR HOLDINGS PLC
(Translation
of registrant's name into English)
c/o Ryanair Ltd Corporate Head Office
Dublin
Airport
County Dublin Ireland
(Address
of principal executive offices)
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Act of
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RYANAIR AGREES TO RECOGNISE PILOT UNIONS TO AVOID WIDESPREAD
CUSTOMER DISRUPTIONS OVER CHRISTMAS PERIOD
Ryanair
today (Fri 15 Dec) announced that it has written to the pilot
unions in Ireland, the UK, Germany, Italy, Spain and Portugal
inviting each of them to talks to recognise these unions as the
representative body for pilots in Ryanair in each of these
countries, as long as they establish Committees of Ryanair pilots
to deal with Ryanair issues, as Ryanair will not engage with pilots
who fly for competitor airlines in Ireland or
elsewhere.
Ryanair
will now change its long standing policy of not recognising unions
in order to avoid any threat of disruption to its customers and its
flights from pilot unions during Christmas week. Ryanair now calls
on these pilot unions to call off the threatened industrial action
on Wed 20 Dec next so that our customers can look forward to
travelling home for Christmas without the threat or worry of pilot
strikes hanging over them.
Ryanair's Michael O'Leary said:
"Christmas flights are very important to our customers and we wish
to remove any worry or concern that they may be disrupted by pilot
industrial action next week.
If the best way to achieve this is to talk to our pilots through a
recognised union process, then we are prepared to do so, and we
have written today to these unions inviting them to talks to
recognise them and calling on them to cancel the threatened
industrial action planned for Christmas week.
Recognising unions will be a significant change for Ryanair, but we
have delivered radical change before, most recently when we
launched Ryanair Labs and our highly successful Always Getting
Better customer improvement programme in 2013.
Putting the needs of our customers first, and avoiding disruption
to their Christmas flights, is the reason why we will now deal with
our pilots through recognised national union structures and we hope
and expect that these structures can and will be agreed with our
pilots early in the New Year."
Click
on, or paste the following link into your web browser, to view the
associated PDF document
http://www.rns-pdf.londonstockexchange.com/rns/4721Z_-2017-12-15.pdf
For further information
please
contact:
Robin
Kiely
Piaras Kelly
Ryanair DAC
Edelman Ireland
Tel:
+353-1-9451949
Tel: +353-1-6789333
press@ryanair.com
ryanair@edelman.com
SIGNATURES
Pursuant
to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the
Registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf
by the undersigned, hereunto duly authorized.
Date: 15
December, 2017
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Juliusz Komorek____
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Juliusz
Komorek
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Company
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