Ryanair cancellations due to backlog of staff leave
Sep 18, 2017, 5:54 am
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Naughty Norwegian opened a base up in Dublin and have taken 140 Ryanair pilots so far this year. No pilots, no fly - simple rally. This is a huge challenge to Ryanair to fix and a win win for pilots and remuneration
Sep 18, 2017, 6:08 am
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Because the 2 week notice period is well known, and therefore Ryanair could run their crystal ball out to work out the implications of their future workload and staff leave requirements, it is surprising that Ryanair are cancelling flights at short notice. With a bit of cleverness they could minimise their compensation losses, by either giving more notice or concentrating on higher frequency routes like DUB-STN. I think they are in a very painful situation to allow this to happen.
Sep 18, 2017, 6:09 am
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Sep 18, 2017, 6:18 am
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No information from Ryanair
As of this writing Ryanair is listing cancelled flights up to Sept 20, so exactly one day away.
What about those of us who are booked a month from now? This is incredibly bad planning, and worse customer treatment. They obviously do not care.
What about those of us who are booked a month from now? This is incredibly bad planning, and worse customer treatment. They obviously do not care.
Sep 18, 2017, 6:24 am
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) is the 19th.You will be informed by SMS/email as soon as your flight is impacted - so make sure your contact details are correct.
Sep 18, 2017, 6:55 am
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I have seen a twitter post from a passenger who couldn't get on his return flight. Great if he has a job he isn't fond of.
Sep 18, 2017, 7:03 am
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At this stage, nobody knows. But from looking at the list of cancellations, the same routes appear over and over. Flights from many Ryanair destinations are unaffected. If you keep an eye on the cancellations lists, you may get a feel for whether your route is likely to be impacted, or not. Though, of course, the "roster" of routes may change in the coming days/weeks.
Sep 18, 2017, 7:15 am
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They are losing pilots faster than a gambling addict loses his money.
Naughty Norwegian opened a base up in Dublin and have taken 140 Ryanair pilots so far this year. No pilots, no fly - simple rally. This is a huge challenge to Ryanair to fix and a win win for pilots and remuneration
Naughty Norwegian opened a base up in Dublin and have taken 140 Ryanair pilots so far this year. No pilots, no fly - simple rally. This is a huge challenge to Ryanair to fix and a win win for pilots and remuneration
Sep 18, 2017, 8:53 am
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Ryanair are due to hold a press conference today around 4pm (BST) and the full list of cancellations will be published.
Mo'L told Sky News, who doorstepped him earlier today: "We sincerely apologise and we are working very hard at the moment to make sure we finalise the list of flight cancellations."
Mo'L told Sky News, who doorstepped him earlier today: "We sincerely apologise and we are working very hard at the moment to make sure we finalise the list of flight cancellations."
Sep 18, 2017, 9:41 am
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Originally Posted by Ryanair.com
Ryanair today (18 Sept) confirmed that it has published the full list of flight cancellations (now less than 50 per day) between Thurs 21st Sept. to Tues 31st 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 21st to Thurs Oct 31st) will appear on the Ryanair.com website later today, and customers affected by these cancellations will be emailed with offers of alternative flights or full refunds, and details of their EU261 compensation entitlement.
The airports where one line of flying will be removed for the next 6 weeks are as follows, (these airports have been selected because of the high frequency of flights Ryanair operates to/from these airports where customers can be offered the most accommodating options):
Barcelona 1 of 12 lines of flights
Brussels Charleroi 1 of 13 lines of flights
Dublin 1 of 23 lines of flights
Lisbon 1 of 4 lines of flights
London Stansted 2 of 41 lines of flights
Madrid 1 of 13 lines of flight
Milan Bergamo 1 of 14 lines of flights
Porto 1 of 8 lines of flights
Rome Fiumicino 1 of 3 lines of flights
While Ryanair sincerely regrets and apologises for these cancellations, it pointed out that they will affect less than 2% of all customers over the next 6 weeks, and the majority of these passengers will be offered alternative flights on the same or next day. For those passengers who cannot, or do not wish to take the alternative flights offered they will receive a full refund and their EU261 compensation.
The full list of these flight cancellations (from Thurs 21st to Thurs Oct 31st) will appear on the Ryanair.com website later today, and customers affected by these cancellations will be emailed with offers of alternative flights or full refunds, and details of their EU261 compensation entitlement.
The airports where one line of flying will be removed for the next 6 weeks are as follows, (these airports have been selected because of the high frequency of flights Ryanair operates to/from these airports where customers can be offered the most accommodating options):
Barcelona 1 of 12 lines of flights
Brussels Charleroi 1 of 13 lines of flights
Dublin 1 of 23 lines of flights
Lisbon 1 of 4 lines of flights
London Stansted 2 of 41 lines of flights
Madrid 1 of 13 lines of flight
Milan Bergamo 1 of 14 lines of flights
Porto 1 of 8 lines of flights
Rome Fiumicino 1 of 3 lines of flights
While Ryanair sincerely regrets and apologises for these cancellations, it pointed out that they will affect less than 2% of all customers over the next 6 weeks, and the majority of these passengers will be offered alternative flights on the same or next day. For those passengers who cannot, or do not wish to take the alternative flights offered they will receive a full refund and their EU261 compensation.
Sep 18, 2017, 9:42 am
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The form for flight refunds can be found here: https://refundclaims.ryanair.com/
The form for expense claims can be found here: https://eu261expenseclaim.ryanair.com/
The form for disruption compensation can be found here: https://contactform.ryanair.com/?cr=eu261&lg=en&id=78
The form for expense claims can be found here: https://eu261expenseclaim.ryanair.com/
The form for disruption compensation can be found here: https://contactform.ryanair.com/?cr=eu261&lg=en&id=78
Sep 18, 2017, 9:57 am
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1. Many Ryanair pilots still have to take their holidays this year and Ryanair has forgotten those free days when making the duty schedules for the pilots.
2. Ryanair needs replacement aircrafts for increasing its punctuality rate over 80%.
3. Ryanair wants to be prepared, if it will get additional slots resulting from AirBerlin's insolvency.
Sep 18, 2017, 11:25 am
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Airlines can be very coy about offering to hand out huge sums of money for their own mistakes/problems.
Sep 18, 2017, 11:47 am
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Sep 18, 2017, 1:02 pm
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Hi guys, new flyertalker here
So my flight is cancelled (next saturday), Should i ask for a refund and fill a claim for EU261 compensation?
Looks like in their site i need to fill 2 forms for this, so i just wanna be sure that accepting the flight refund doesn't take the right for the claim.
Thanks
So my flight is cancelled (next saturday), Should i ask for a refund and fill a claim for EU261 compensation?
Looks like in their site i need to fill 2 forms for this, so i just wanna be sure that accepting the flight refund doesn't take the right for the claim.
Thanks