Airline letter said ‘recognition of and engagement’ with Ialpa by regional route operator would be ‘a condition of entering into agreement with Aer Lingus’
The letter, dated June 16th, 2020, and circulated to pilots on Friday, adds that Aer Lingus will stipulate that the “supplier” will “engage meaningfully with Ialpa and its officers”, as the representatives of pilots hired by the airline to fly under the franchise agreement for Aer Lingus’s benefit.
Aer Lingus Regional services link British, French and Channel Island airports with Ireland. Emerald emerged as the preferred bidder to succeed Stobart Air as the operator late in 2020, finalising a deal in 2021. Aer Lingus made the commitment to Ialpa in 2020 after the union agreed that Stobart could base regional services at Belfast. Previous deals with the pilots’ union stipulated that Aer Lingus Regional services could only be based from airports within the Republic.Stobart – which was in financial trouble by mid-2020, partly a result of severe Government-imposed Covid restrictions – had sought the concession on Belfast as it believed this offered a potential route to survival.
Aer Lingus Regional is now one of the biggest airlines at Belfast City Airport, which has in turn become a key base for the service and Emerald.
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