Ryanair 'run like a communist regime', says pilot...

Cabin crew reduced to tears, pilots refused days off even for their weddings, and workers "left in exile" thousands of miles from their homes and families.

After budget airline Ryanair was forced to cancel thousands of flights - repeatedly blaming a rostering error rather than an alleged pilot shortage - chief executive Michael O'Leary has written to pilots offering them better pay and conditions.

Here, a long-serving pilot explains why the offer is "too little, too late", and explains why his colleagues are leaving the airline.

Mr O'Leary is partly right to say the cancellations have been caused by problems accommodating pilots' leave, says the pilot.

But this has been exacerbated by unhappy staff seeking new jobs with rival airlines, he believes. Full story...

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