{"id":552805,"date":"2026-07-16T14:22:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T14:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/552805\/"},"modified":"2026-07-16T14:22:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T14:22:09","slug":"aer-lingus-to-cut-up-to-500-jobs-and-drop-routes-out-of-dublin-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/552805\/","title":{"rendered":"Aer Lingus to cut up to 500 jobs and drop routes out of Dublin \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/aer-lingus\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/aer-lingus\/\">Aer Lingus <\/a>could cut 500 jobs while axing some routes out of Dublin as it grapples with rising costs and increased competition, the airline said on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Higher fuel bills and increased rivalry on North American services are eating into the Irish carrier\u2019s profits, prompting a review of the business earlier this summer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The company told staff on Monday that it will seek up to cut up to 500 jobs from a total workforce of 6,500 and will begin talks with trade union representatives shortly.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Aer Lingus said the cuts could involve 70 pilots, 140 cabin crew and 290 jobs in its Dublin Airport head office.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">It will cut capacity by 6 per cent overall and will axe flights from Dublin to Denver, Minneapolis, Las Vegas and Split in Croatia this autumn.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-it-article-body__interstitial-link\">[\u00a0<a aria-label=\"Open related story\" class=\"c-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/business\/2026\/06\/16\/aer-lingus-cuts-management-numbers-by-a-quarter\/\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Aer Lingus reduces management numbers by 25%Opens in new window<\/a>\u00a0]<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The company needs to restore margins earned from its business to between 12 and 15 per cent in order to get renewed investment from its parent, International Airlines Group (IAG). Those margins are currently around 10 per cent.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Chief executive, Lynne Embleton stressed that the move would \u201csupport future growth and continue to provide connectivity and significant economic contribution to Ireland\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Trade union F\u00f3rsa responded that job losses \u201cmust always be a last resort\u201d and vowed to take every step to minimise any need for compulsory redundancies.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The union, which represents cabin crew and office staff confirmed that it would take part in talks with the company.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">\u201cToday\u2019s news will be very difficult for Aer Lingus workers and their families, many of whom will be worried about what this means for their livelihoods,\u201d said national secretary Hazel Nolan.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The Irish Airline Pilots\u2019 Association (Ialpa) argued that management was proposing cuts in one of Europe\u2019s strongest carriers, backed by an owner which earned \u20ac5 billion operating profit last year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">\u201cThis proposal raises fundamental questions about the strategic direction being taken by Aer Lingus,\u201d said the union\u2019s president, Capt Daniel Langan. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Aer Lingus could cut 500 jobs while axing some routes out of Dublin as it grapples with rising&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":406769,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[601,72,11900,61,60,74879],"class_list":["post-552805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-aer-lingus","tag-business","tag-dublin-airport","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-lynne-embleton"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552805","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=552805"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552805\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/406769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=552805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=552805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=552805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}