{"id":418965,"date":"2026-04-26T20:51:16","date_gmt":"2026-04-26T20:51:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/418965\/"},"modified":"2026-04-26T20:51:16","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T20:51:16","slug":"sudden-cancellation-of-aer-lingus-training-leaves-cabin-crew-recruits-disappointed-and-out-of-pocket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/418965\/","title":{"rendered":"Sudden cancellation of Aer Lingus training leaves cabin crew recruits \u2018disappointed and out of pocket\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Airline blames \u2018operational requirements\u2019 for decision\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Aer Lingus has axed flights and training programmes. Stock photo: Getty\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/e4989bb7-9118-4bf3-a1a7-c15f89056c6d.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Aer Lingus has axed flights and training programmes. Stock photo: Getty<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Aer Lingus has cut up to 50 new cabin crew recruits in recent days, cancelling training courses just four days before some were due to begin. The hopefuls have been left disappointed by the last-minute decision, and out of pocket for medical and visa expenses.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The airline blamed \u201coperational requirements\u201d, but the move was described in an email from the company\u2019s recruiters as a \u201csurprise\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Airline blames \u2018operational requirements\u2019 for decision Aer Lingus has axed flights and training programmes. Stock photo: Getty Aer&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":418966,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[601,72,11900,6353,61,60],"class_list":["post-418965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-aer-lingus","tag-business","tag-dublin-airport","tag-fearghal-oconnor","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418965","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=418965"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418965\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/418966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=418965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=418965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=418965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}