Manufacturing & Supply Chain

Ryanair has published the full list of flight cancellations (now less than 50 per day) between Thurs 21^st Sept. to Tues 31^st Oct. next. These cancellations have been allocated where possible, to Ryanair’s bigger base airports, and routes with multiple daily frequencies so that Ryanair can offer these disrupted customers the maximum number of alternate flights and routes in order to minimise inconvenience to them.

The full list of these flight cancellations (from Thurs 21^st to Thurs Oct 31^st) are on the Ryanair.com website and customers affected by these cancellations have been emailed with offers of alternative flights or full refunds, and details of their EU261 compensation entitlement.

Ryanair’s Michael O’Leary said: “While over 98% of our customers will not be affected by these cancellations over the next six weeks, we apologise unreservedly to those customers whose travel will be disrupted, and assure them that we have done our utmost to try to ensure that we can re-accommodate most of them on alternative flights on the same or next day.

“Ryanair is not short of pilots – we were able to fully crew our peak summer schedule in June, July and August – but we have messed up the allocation of annual leave to pilots in Sept and Oct because we are trying to allocate a full year’s leave into a nine month period from April to December. This issue will not recur in 2018 as Ryanair goes back onto a 12 month calendar leave year from 1^st Jan to 31^st December 2018.

“This is a mess of our own making. I apologise sincerely to all our customers for any worry or concern this has caused them over the past weekend. We have only taken this decision to cancel this small proportion of our 2,500 daily flights so that we can provide extra standby cover and protect the punctuality of the 98% of flights that will be unaffected by these cancellations.”