A Labour Court hearing between Aer Lingus and the Irish Airline Pilots Association is underway.
It will hear submissions from both parties in the pay row which has led to pilots undertaking an indefinite work-to-rule since last week.
Aer Lingus has been forced to cancel almost 470 flights in that time frame.
Chief Corporate Affairs Officer with Aer Lingus, Donal Moriarty, says they'll be making their case for changes in workplace practices:
"They include increasing productivity and flexibility to enable our operation to work more efficiently, their impact on the individual pilots is actually very minimal. It's to provide an overall level of productivity and flexibility that can enable the airline to run more efficiently for its customers"
IALPA had been looking for a pay rise of nearly 24 per cent, but has indicated it is willing to move on that.
President Captain Mark Tighe says the claim is a fair one:
"It must be acknowledged that business owners who do not protect their employees from inflation are ultimately, and in time, going to impoverish their employees, and that will happen from the lowest employees up as they slide off the bottom one by one. And we ask the Labour Court, to consider as we go forward, the profitable nature of the company"
