Pilots accept invitation to new talks with Aer Lingus to avert strike action

A meeting room has been booked at an unspecified location for tomorrow

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Aer Lingus wrote to the union this morning, asking it to attend a meeting with airline executives tomorrow morning.

Aer Lingus chief corporate affairs officer Dónal Moriarty said that a meeting room has been booked at an unspecified location and that the airline was awaiting a response from the union.

“We wrote to Ialpa this morning, advising them that we’ve booked a meeting room and time for a meeting tomorrow morning, and asked if they are available to meet,” he said. “We’ve been…