- new cabin crew recruits made to pay €3000 for training course and a further €300 for the uniform/€25 for airport ID. Ryanair do not compensate towards any payments and is staff responsibility to pay back loans on time
- Ryanair put pressure on cabin crew to push sales. We are set targets for every flight and if we don't reach them we get debriefed and meetings with management asking why we didn't sell enough scratchcards, tea/coffee etc. Even going to lenghts phoning you on days off questioning you as to why we didn't reach the targets.
- no designated lunch breaks for cabin crew sometimes flights are so busy we go 12 hour shifts without eating anything. Only time we get to eat is if we have few minutes on quiet flights but most flights are too busy.
- very strict on calling in sick for work. A lot of new cabin crew in the 1st yr get fired for having minimum sick days even when they're certified by a doctor, it won't matter. Before we were allowed call sick 2 days and didn't require sick certs... now if we call sick for one day we must go to doctors and pay for sick certs.
- nobody wants to work for Ryanair anymore so I see crew being recruited to work here with minimal English and some people have mental issues/problems. Not safe in my opinion to have people like this work in aircraft in case there is an emergency
-airport standby duties are unpaid if on Ryanair contract or if crew are on contracts with workforce/crew link they get paid €30 for 8hrs work. Airport standbys are supposed to be few extra crew waiting in crewroom incase other crew no show for flights or happen to be late to work. In this case a standby crew would be taken... however before we used to sit around relax on airport standbys as we're not paid but now we are required to go up to boarding gates to sell bus/train tickets to passengers and operate aircraft changes and board aircraft so flights won't be delayed. This requires a full days work and we are not paid. Don't know how Ryanair get away with it.
-annual leave days are hard to get when crew want them. We basically have to take what we're given and time off in the summer in near impossible.
