Aer Lingus cabin crew back down over cuts plan

Cabin crew at Irish airline Aer Lingus have voted 92 per cent in favour of the airline’s cost-cutting plan, dramatically reversing last month’s vote that rejected the same proposal by two to one.After the cabin crew rejected the original €97 million (£86.6 million) cost-cutting plan, Aer Lingus management threatened to make all 1,300 of them redundant and immediately re-employ all but 230 on new contracts with reduced pay and new conditions. The 230 staff would have been made compulsorily redundant on statutory redundancy terms of two weeks pay per year of service.