The crisis at Aer Lingus just seems to keep getting worse and worse. This time the news comes in the forum of two problems for the airline. First and foremost, the finance director for the company is now resigning. Second, the talks with the pilots over pay cuts has finally broken down.

The finance director Sean Coyle, will now be leaving Aer Lingus at the end of the month and will resign from the company’s board. His departure reflects wide unrest within the Irish flag carrier. The carrier has set up a task force to manage compulsory redundancies and a fleet reduction after staff rejected a voluntary scheme.

The company’s chairman, Colm Barrington, said that Sean has made a significant contribution to Aer Lingus since joining the team back in August of 2008, most notably within the context of the transformation plan. He went on to say that they all wish Sean the best of luck in his future career.

The negotiations between the airline and its pilots stalled again earlier this week over the failure to agree on cost saving measurements. The pilots proposed a package that would have saved €33 million a year and did include pay cuts and a reduction in pilot numbers of up to 15 percent. However, the airline is looking to make way bigger cuts than that.

This news comes following threats by Aer Lingus last week to shift its operations from Dublin to Gatwick and Belfast. The move will result in hundreds further compulsory redundancies. Christoph Mueller, the new Aer Lingus chief executive, said that job losses of 676 announced in October will reach more than 1,000 because of the failure of the Irish Air Line Pilots Association to agree to cuts.