Ryanair cancellations leaving passengers up in the air

Ryanair have announced they will cancel up to 50 flights a day to help staff catch up on their holiday entitlement. In a statement released today, the no-frills airline said the cancellations would happen over the next six weeks.

In unprecedented levels of disruption at the company Ryanair today cancelled over 160 flights within 48 hours. It cancelled 82 flights set for Friday and a further 80 scheduled for Saturday.

Ryanair said the cancellation was neccesary in order  "to improve its system-wide punctuality which has fallen below 80% in the first two weeks of September through a combination of ATC capacity delays and strikes, weather disruptions and the impact of increased holiday allocations to pilots and cabin crew as the airline moves to allocate annual leave during a 9 month transition period (April to December 2017) to move the airline’s holiday year (currently April to March) to a calendar year (Jan to Dec) from 1st January 2018 onwards."

Ryanair’s Robin Kiely explained: “We have operated a record schedule (and traffic numbers) during the peak summer months of July and August but must now allocate annual leave to pilots and cabin crew in September and October (while still running the bulk of our summer schedule).

Have you been affected by the disruption please let us know!