Report of Foreign Issuer (6-k)
September 18 2017 - 1:24PM
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 PUBLISHES LIST OF FLIGHTS TO BE CANCELLED UP TO END OF
OCTOBER
OVER 98% OF RYANAIR CUSTOMERS WILL BE UNAFFECTED
Ryanair
today (18 Sept) confirmed that it has published the full list of
flight cancellations (now less than 50 per day) between Thurs
21
st
Sept.
to Tues 31
st
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 21
st
to Tues Oct
31
st
) 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
Charl
|
1 of 13
lines of flights
|
|
Dublin
|
1 of 23
lines of flights
|
|
Lisbon
|
1 of 4
lines of flights
|
|
London
Stan
|
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
Fiumi
|
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.
Ryanair's Michael O'Leary said;
"While over 98% of our customers will not be affected by these
cancellations over the next 6 weeks, we apologise unreservedly to
those customers whose travel will be disrupted, and assure them
that we have done our utmost to try to ensure that we can
re-accommodate most of them on alternative flights on the same or
next day.
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 Sept and Oct because
we are trying to allocate a full year's leave into a 9 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
st
Jan to
31
st
December 2018.
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."
ENDS
For further information
please contact:
|
Robin Kiely
|
Piaras Kelly
|
|
|
Ryanair Ltd
|
Edelman Ireland
|
|
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Tel: +353-1-9451949
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Tel: +353-1-6789 333
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|
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press@ryanair.com
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ryanair@edelman.com
|
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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: 18
September, 2017
|
By:___/s/
Juliusz Komorek____
|
|
|
|
Juliusz
Komorek
|
|
Company
Secretary
|
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