Shot of crew asleep on airport floor was staged, saysRyanair

Bloomberg

Ryanair Holdings Plc’s year-long dispute with unions took a bizarre turn with the release of CCTV footage the discount carrier says shows cabin crew staging a photo of them being forced to sleep on the floor at Malaga airport in Spain. The original shot, posted on a Facebook page critical of Ryanair, appeared to depict staff bedded down at the terminal after being stranded by storms, and was accompanied by the suggestion that the company had “left them there.”
Ryanair initially apologised for situation, saying there’d been no available hotel rooms, before posting footage with claim that the initial image was a fake photo. “This video proves that the original picture was staged and no crew slept on the floor,” it said in a statement. The SNPVAC union, which represents Portuguese crew, argued that the picture was an accurate illustration of what had happened, with 24 people left overnight without food, drink or enough chairs to sit down.