Ryanair sacks chief pilot over sexual misconduct claims

Ryanair has sacked its main aviator aft an probe into his alleged intersexual harassment of pistillate colleagues.

The hose told unit that helium had been fired for "a signifier of repeated inappropriate and unacceptable behaviour towards a fig of pistillate pilots".

The main pilot, named successful reports arsenic Aidan Murray, 58, was appointed successful 2020.

Ryanair declined to remark "on queries relating to idiosyncratic employees".

According to The Independent, Mr Murray allegedly harassed 9 inferior colleagues, including sending substance messages to immoderate with comments connected their bodies.

Mr Murray is besides accused of altering formation rosters to alert with definite pistillate pilots.

In a enactment to staff, Ryanair's main radical officer, Darrell Hughes, said Mr Murray's employment had been "terminated with contiguous effect".

An probe recovered his behaviour "was successful breach of our anti-harassment policy". Ryanair said unit should beryllium capable to travel to enactment "in a harmless and unafraid environment".

"We would inquire each of you to respect the privateness and integrity of those brave individuals who came guardant to assistance america successful this investigation," Mr Hughes added.

The Financial Times reported that Mr Murray has 7 days to motorboat an entreaty against his dismissal.

The BBC has attempted to interaction Mr Murray for comment.

The occupation of main aviator is an important one. The holder is some a highly qualified hose skipper and a manager, liable for overseeing different pilots based astatine a hub airport.

They are usually successful complaint of issues specified arsenic training, formation coordination and rostering arsenic good arsenic addressing idiosyncratic issues. They tin besides correspond the hose successful disciplinary issues.

As such, they person a batch of powerfulness implicit their chap pilots, peculiarly much inferior ones seeking promotions.

The proposition that idiosyncratic successful this presumption mightiness beryllium abusing their powerfulness - and behaving successful an "inappropriate and unacceptable" mode towards pistillate unit - is truthful a precise superior charge.

It's important to enactment that we haven't heard the different broadside of the story. But it appears that whistleblowers person travel guardant - and person been listened to.

Against that background, the dismissal should travel arsenic nary surprise.

A study past twelvemonth by the Royal Aeronautical Society into favoritism and deficiency of diverseness successful hose aviator grooming recovered "extremely concerning" reports of sexism and intersexual harassment by galore pistillate pilots.

Although galore had affirmative comments connected their training, reports of sexism and harassment ranged from "banter" to "uncomfortable advances from antheral trainers".