Ryanair’s Italian pilots have voted for a new working pact with the budget carrier as it seeks to head off further strike action.
The new collective labour agreement was negotiated and signed between Ryanair and the Italian airline pilots association ANPAC.
The vote in Italy comes shortly after Irish union Forsa recommended a mediation agreement to Ryanair’s Irish pilots, who are currently voting to approve the deal following a series of walkouts.
Ryanair chief people officer, Eddie Wilson, welcomed the first pilot agreement in one of its largest EU markets.
He said: “We welcome this first collective labour agreement with our Italian pilots and hope that it will be shortly followed by a similar agreement covering our Irish pilots.
“We have invited our UK, German and Spanish unions to meet with us in the coming days so that we can negotiate and hopefully agree similar pilot collective labour agreements in these other larger markets.
“These agreements demonstrate the real progress being made by Ryanair in its negotiations with its pilots and their unions across different EU markets.”