Ryanair announces further cancellations until March 2018
Thursday, September 28, 2017 @ 6:14 PM
LOW-COST airline Ryanair has announced a further 18,000 flights will be cancelled from mid-November to mid-March, affecting 34 routes and an estimated 400,000 customers.
A total of 25 aeroplanes in the Irish company's 400-strong fleet will cease to operate until March 18, 2018 to 'eliminate the risk' of further last-minute cancellations such as those suffered by passengers this month and also travellers who have booked for October.
“Flying 25 fewer aircraft this winter will result in a number of flight and schedule changes from November to March 2018,” Ryanair says.
“We have fewer than 400,000 customers booked on these flights.”
On average, one flight a day across Ryanair's 200 airports will be affected for the next five months, although the company stresses that many of these have not yet been booked.
From April 2018, when the carrier increases its fleet to 445 aircraft, a further 10 fewer planes will run to 'relieve the backlog' of annual leave.
“Fewer than 1% of the 50 million customers Ryanair will carry this winter are affected, and every one of these customers has received an email giving them between five weeks' to five months' notice of these schedule changes, offering them alternative flights or full refunds,” Ryanair continues.
“They have also received a €40 travel voucher (€80 return), again for travel between October and March
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