The Irish Airline Pilots’ Association (Ialpa) has also asked company management to attend talks this weekend amid on-going efforts to resolve a dispute over pay and conditions at the group.

ASL Airlines is a major European distributor for companies including Amazon, FedEx, DHL and UPS. It employs more than 300 pilots. Any industrial action could hamper delivery schedules for the client companies during the run-up to Christmas.

The company was issued with notice this week by Ialpa, initially of strike action that would take place between Tuesday and Wednesday next week.

The union later issued a second strike action notice to ASL, informing it that pilots would also strike between Thursday and Friday next week.

ASL then urged Ialpa to attend talks at the WRC and in the meantime to suspen

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