- Photos show staff fooling around at maintenance depot at Prestwick Airport
- While footage shows workers pinning a man down and pouring glitter on him
- It comes as Ryanair reels from a scandal that saw thousands of flights cancelled
Ryanair safety workers have been filmed horsing around just yards from the planes they’re supposed to be checking.
Footage given to The Sun Online by a whistleblower shows the employees playing a prank at the airline’s maintenance depot at Prestwick Airport, near Glasgow.
The video appeared to show one of the workers being held down and sprayed with glitter.
Photographs showed staff drawing on each other’s faces with marker pen while one man was seen strapped to a table.
There is no indication that the workers’ actions are putting passengers or crew members in danger but the material comes as Ryanair is still reeling after an admin blunder forced the cancellation of thousands of its flights.
The whistleblower told The Sun: ‘This was not a one-off. These things were going on for years and continue to do so today.’
Transport Select Committee member and Tory MP Steve Double has called for an investigation by Ryanair into the ‘deeply concerning’ pictures and has said the firm’s CEO Michael O’Leary should be questioned MPs over the matter.
He said: ‘I’d expect Ryanair to look into this urgently.’
Ryanair is still reeling after an admin blunder forced the cancellation of thousands of its flights
Steve Double has said Ryanair’s CEO Michael O’Leary, pictured, should be questioned MPs over the matter
Yesterday, Ryanair announced that its chief operations officer Michael Hickey, will depart amid the crisis that has seen 715,000 customers’ flights cancelled due to a miscalculation of pilots’ holiday dates. Mr Hickey’s job was to schedule the pilots’ shifts.
After the cancellations sparked customer outrage and a wave of negative media coverage across Europe, Ryanair has been scrambling to appease its pilots and promised them significant improvements in pay and conditions on Thursday.
Ryanair has said reports it had a pilot shortage were false and that less than 260 of its 4,200 pilots had left so far this year amid some being poached by rival Norwegian Air Shuttle .
In a separate statement on Friday, it said it had hired 210 new pilots in the past 12 weeks, bringing to 822 the number who have joined since the start of the year.