(The Local) Budget airline Ryanair is putting its pilots under so much pressure to save money that they are flying with just enough fuel on board to reduce costs – a practice that forced three planes to make emergency landings in Spain recently.
“If an airline has to do emergency landings three times on one day due to a lack of fuel, something’s wrong with the system,” spokesman for the pilots’ union Vereinigung Cockpit, Jörg Handwerg, told Financial Times Deutschland on Thursday.
The three Ryanair airplanes were forced to land in Valencia rather than Madrid because their tanks were almost empty, he said.