Ryanair is asking pilots from Stansted and Manchester bases to take 12 months of unpaid leave or transfer to overseas bases
Airline says numbers must be reduced at bases such as Stansted and Manchester. Ryanair has written to UK pilots asking them to take unpaid leave or transfer to other bases abroad, saying they could otherwise join the 9,000 job losses at Thomas Cook. The airline told its pilots that a “significant surplus of pilots must…