Cabin crew members at Aer Lingus are to ballot on a revised pay deal, following renewed negotiations with the airline during September.

An earlier pay deal was rejected by cabin crew in June. The new deal, which improves the basic pay rate by 12.25% over the next two years, and which will be backdated to 1st January 2023, will be put to a ballot of members shortly.

The Aer Lingus Cabin Crew branch committee will issue the ballot with a recommendation to vote in favour of the new pay deal.

Under the terms of the new deal, basic pay will receive a 5.75% boost in October - or €1,840, whichever is greater - as soon as the ballot is accepted. Another 3.5% (or €1,120) will apply from 1st January 2024, and another 3% (or €960) from 1st January 2025.

In addition, there will be a once-off tax-free voucher payment made on 1st October 2024, worth €750. The new pay deal includes annual revisions to cabin crew credits over the three-year period covered, which will see cabin crew receive an extra €664 in credits in 2024, and a total of €890 a year by 2025.

Fórsa and Aer Lingus will commence negotiations to devise a new credits model by January 2024.

The deal will also see cabin crew pay scale progression for those recruited in 2022 and 2023, in addition to improvements in commission and overnight allowances.