Italian pilots union Anpac said on Tuesday that a majority of its pilots had approved a collective labour agreement with Ryanair in the airline’s latest breakthrough in efforts to quell staff protests around Europe...

“We welcome this first [agreement] with our Italian pilots and hope that it will be shortly followed by a similar agreement covering our Irish pilots,” Ryanair chief people officer Eddie Wilson said in a statement. “We have invited our UK, German and Spanish unions to meet with us in the coming days so that we can negotiate and hopefully agree similar pilot [collective labour agreements] in these other larger markets,” he said...