Retired air hostess enjoys free travel

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In 1990, a worker for the airline Aer Lingus agreed a deal that enabled her to travel at subsidised fees when she turned 60 but the company refused to make good on the deal and she took them to court. Jacqueline Howard left her position at the airline nearly 20 years ago after taking a €15,000 redundancy package and she agreed that from 2007, she would receive concessions when she travelled.

The Circuit Court was told how she had not finished her 24 years of service to be counted for the scheme but she argued her case that she had made an arrangement with the company to enjoy free flights from 2007. The air hostess is from County Dublin and two years ago she was informed that she would not be able to get her Retired Staff ID badge due to her not serving the company for a long enough period.

It has been reported that her file was destroyed seven years after she left the job and therefore there was no record of the agreement. “I had planned to celebrate the introduction of the air travel concession by taking my daughter on a trip to Barcelona,” Howard commented in court. No one from Aer Lingus was able to trace the worker with whom she made the deal but the court sided with the mother of two and granted her the ID pass allowing her to fly at concessional rates.

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