Those who have traveled around Europe in the last several years know that one of the best parts is the dirt-cheap flights from Europe’s low-cost airlines. The biggest and most infamous of them all is RyanAir, well-known because of its shockingly low prices and infamous because of its plethora of fees for pretty much everything other than the chair you sit in.
Well, RyanAir is now facing losses for the first time in years. Some of it is chalked up to fears over how Brexit is going to play out – an issue that is affecting Europe financially in countless ways. Another issue has been repeated strikes all over Europe, with employees trying to negotiate better wages and benefits. RyanAir is now attempting to sidestep the employees that are striking by drawing more from the labor force in Poland, where labor is cheaper than in most of Europe.
With continued economic instability possible and labor issues far from resolved, the airline’s worries aren’t over.
