Report of Foreign Issuer (6-k)
September 15 2017 - 1:32PM
Edgar (US Regulatory)
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
FORM 6-K
Report of Foreign Private Issuer
Pursuant to Rule 13a-16 or 15d-16
of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934
For the
month of September 2017
RYANAIR HOLDINGS PLC
(Translation
of registrant's name into English)
c/o Ryanair Ltd Corporate Head Office
Dublin
Airport
County Dublin Ireland
(Address
of principal executive offices)
Indicate
by check mark whether the registrant files or will file
annual
reports
under cover Form 20-F or Form 40-F.
Form
20-F..X.. Form 40-F
Indicate
by check mark whether the registrant by furnishing the
information
contained
in this Form is also thereby furnishing the information to
the
Commission
pursuant to Rule 12g3-2(b) under the Securities
Exchange
Act of
1934.
Yes
No ..X..
If
"Yes" is marked, indicate below the file number assigned to the
registrant
in
connection with Rule 12g3-2(b): 82- ________
RYANAIR TO CANCEL LESS THAN 2% OF FLIGHTS OVER NEXT 6 WEEKS TO
IMPROVE PUNCTUALITY
Ryanair,
today (15
th
Sept) announced
that it would cancel 40-50 flights daily for the next six weeks (to
the end of October) 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 1
st
January 2018
onwards.
Ryanair
has operated at record schedule and traffic levels during the peak
summer months of July (12.6m guests) and August (12.7m guests) but
has a backlog of crew leave which must be allocated before
31
st
Dec
2017 in order to switch to a calendar leave year (as required by
the IAA) from 1
st
Jan 2018
onwards.
These
tighter crewing numbers and the impact of ATC capacity restrictions
in the UK, Germany and Spain, as well as French ATC strikes and
adverse weather (thunderstorms) have given rise to significant
delays in recent weeks. Ryanair's on-time performance has
declined from 90% to under 80% over the past two weeks, a figure
that is unacceptable to Ryanair and its customers.
By
reducing its scheduled flying programme over the next six weeks by
less than 2% (of its over 2,500 daily flights), the airline will
create additional standby aircraft which will help restore on-time
performance to its 90% average. Ryanair apologises sincerely
for the inconvenience caused to customers by these
cancellations. Customers will be contacted directly about
this small number of cancellations and offered alternative flights
or full refunds.
Ryanair's Robin Kiely said:
"
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). This increased leave at a time of ATC capacity
delays and strikes, has severely reduced our on-time performance
over the past two weeks to under 80%. By cancelling less than
2% of our flying programme over the next six weeks, (until our
winter schedule starts in early November) we can improve the
operational resilience of our schedules and restore punctuality to
our annualised target of 90%.
We apologise sincerely to the small number of
customers affected by these cancellations, and will be doing our
utmost to arrange alternative flights and/or full refunds for
them.
"
ENDS
For further information
please
contact:
Robin
Kiely
Piaras Kelly
Ryanair
DAC
Edelman Ireland
Tel:
+353-1-9451949
Tel: +353-1-6789333
press@ryanair.com
ryanair@edelman.com
SIGNATURES
Pursuant
to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the
Registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf
by the undersigned, hereunto duly authorized.
Date: 15
September, 2017
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By:___/s/
Juliusz Komorek____
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Juliusz
Komorek
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Company
Secretary
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