Ryanair announced the closure of its recently opened base in Copenhagen to avoid a strike by Danish unions, but said it would continue to fly from the airport, Lithuania's state investment promotion agency Invest Lithuania reports.
The airline said in a press release that it will relocate its Copenhagen base to Kaunas on 14 July. This would make the unions' planned strike on 18 July illegal, the airline said.
"John Dybart of the Danish unions this week claimed that "Ryanair was bluffing" when we threatened to close the whole Copenhagen base. Perhaps now he will realise that the Danish economy and the Danish unions cannot succeed by forcing Danish jobs overseas," airline spokesman Eddie Wilson wrote in the press release.
"Perhaps Mr. Dybart will now call for the Danish offices of Google, Microsoft, Facebook and other non-union companies in Denmark to be closed since their employees, like Ryanair and other multinationals, do not recognise Danish unions either," Wilson added.
Ryanair's only Copenhagen-based aircraft would be stationed in Kaunas in Lithuania starting on Tuesday, the company said.
