Aer Lingus pilots say they are going to resume talks with the Irish airline after they launched an industrial motion that led to the cancellation of a whole bunch of flights and tossed the journey plans of tens of hundreds into disarrayJune 26, 2024, 5:52 AM ET• 2 min readLONDON — Aer Lingus pilots stated they’d resume talks with the Irish airline after they launched an industrial motion Wednesday that led to the cancellation of a whole bunch of flights and tossed the journey plans of tens of hundreds into disarray.The pilots imposed ‘’work to rule’’ actions, refusing to work time beyond regulation, accepting adjustments in set rosters or taking out-of-hours administration requests.The Irish Air Line Pilots’ Affiliation stated it could resume talks Thursday with Aer Lingus because the labor motion continues.An eight-hour strike is deliberate on Saturday.The flag service of Eire and its pilots have been locked in a bitter dispute over pay, with pilots looking for a pay enhance of 24% to maintain tempo with inflation since their final pay elevate in 2019. Aer Lingus has stated it’s prepared to supply pay will increase of 12.5% or extra if “productiveness and suppleness” are mentioned.Eire’s prime minister, Simon Harris, stated it’s “completely very important” {that a} decision is discovered.“My problem to the events now could be to carry that engagement ahead, reasonably than placing individuals via a chronic interval of agony and chaos, after which partaking ultimately anyway,” Harris stated Tuesday. “This dispute will probably be settled the identical manner each dispute is settled: compromise, engagement, sitting round a desk. That’s what must occur.”