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RYANAIR HAS PUBLISHED a list of the upcoming flights it has cancelled.
Speaking at a press conference today, Ryanair CEO Michael O’Leary apologised to customers affected by the airline’s decision to cancel up to 50 flights a day.
Here is a list of the individual flights affected so far.
“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,” O’Leary said.
The airline has said the cancellations, taking place until the end of October, 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 worst affected airports are:
*A line of flight refers to a return journey from one airport to another
About 400,000 people will have their flights cancelled.
Compensation
O’Leary estimated that the move will cost Ryanair around €25 million in compensation and loss of profits.
He said the situation has come about due to issues with the allocation of annual leave.
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 September and October 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 January to 31 December 2018,” O’Leary said.
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Had not realised they had not yet provided a replacement mobility allowance for those who require it. Typical government not important as there are no votes in it…..
When it comes to the golden circle the wheels of government can spin very fast…when its the most vulnerable they barely turn at all.
Wonder will they change when they get a spanking on may 23..
Yet Water tax legislation sailed through in record time………………makes you wonder about priorities doesnt it?
It is a pity they would not cut their own mobility allowance as in travel claims just to attend the Dail, their place of work!
Government policy. The weak, the needy and feeble are shoved aside, and put at the back of the Q. Don’t forget the feeble minded weaklings who pretend to govern us subscribe to the Darwinian ethic of, ‘Only the strong survive’. In their world that means only the greedy and their corrupt underlings survive. We can be strong in ways that they will never know about. God Bless you all. Get up now and walk the walk and talk the talk.
Govts do not do planning or forward thinking. That would entail utilising brain cells. Totally alien concept to the powers that be!!!
Disgraceful Gov. has not catered for people with disabilities. Should it really matter if a person was diagnosed with a disability in the last few months as opposited to 13 months ago.
Gov Policy = Ageism and discrimination at its best.
unless they get told by the mafia bosses in brussels or the troika/IMF or the banks these lot in power couldn’t run a decent piss up on st paddys day
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